AMD Radeon HD 6950M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Max-Q

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AMD Radeon HD 6950M NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Max-Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6950M and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6950M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 60W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Max-Q 's Advantages

Released 12 years late

Boost Clock1350MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

6464 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950M

1.114 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 Max Q +1698%

20.04 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950M

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GeForce RTX 4080 Max Q

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jan 2023

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 40 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

795 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1350 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

58

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

7424

48

TMUs

232

32

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

232

-

RT Cores

58

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

48 MB

Theoretical Performance

18.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

108.0 GPixel/s

27.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

313.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

20.04 TFLOPS

1114 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

20.04 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

313.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

AD104

Blackcomb PRO

GPU Variant

GN21-X9

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

4 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

295 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

60W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.9

5.0

Shader Model

6.7

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