AMD Radeon E9550 MXM vs AMD Radeon HD 6950M

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AMD Radeon E9550 MXM AMD Radeon HD 6950M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon E9550 MXM 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 E9550 MXM 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1266MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

1344 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6950M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 95W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon E9550 MXM +423%

5.834 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950M

1.114 TFLOPS

Radeon E9550 MXM

VS

Radeon HD 6950M

Graphics Card

Sep 2016

Release Date

Jan 2011

Embedded

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

-

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

12

2304

Shading Units

960

144

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.56 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.84 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1114 GFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Blackcomb

Ellesmere XT

GPU Variant

Blackcomb PRO

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

95W

TDP

50W

-

Suggested PSU

-

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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