ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 vs AMD Radeon HD 6950M

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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 AMD Radeon HD 6950M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6950M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6950M 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

160 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Mobility Radeon HD 5870

1.12 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950M

1.114 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 5870

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Radeon HD 6950M

Graphics Card

Jan 2010

Release Date

Jan 2011

Manhattan

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

12

800

Shading Units

960

40

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

11.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.56 GPixel/s

28.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.84 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1120 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1114 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Broadway

GPU Name

Blackcomb

Broadway XT (216-0769008)

GPU Variant

Blackcomb PRO

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.04 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

166 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

50W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.0

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