AMD Radeon HD 6950M vs NVIDIA GeForce 820A

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6950M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 820A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6950M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

864 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 820A 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

Lower TDP (15W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950M +273%

1.114 TFLOPS

GeForce 820A

0.298 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950M

VS

GeForce 820A

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Mar 2014

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 800A

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

96

48

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.100 GPixel/s

27.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1114 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

297.6 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

24.80 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

GF117

Blackcomb PRO

GPU Variant

N15V-GM

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

15W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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