AMD Radeon HD 6950M vs AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL

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AMD Radeon HD 6950M AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6950M and 4GB VRAM Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL 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 65W)

AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1011MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950M

1.114 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL +132%

2.588 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950M

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Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Apr 2018

Vancouver

Generation

Vega

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

IGP

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

931 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1011 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

1024bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

20

960

Shading Units

1280

48

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.35 GPixel/s

27.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

80.88 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.588 TFLOPS

1114 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.588 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

161.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

Polaris 22

Blackcomb PRO

GPU Variant

VegaM MGL XL

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

5 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

208 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

65W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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