AMD Radeon HD 6950M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile

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AMD Radeon HD 6950M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6950M and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile 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 112.1GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 75W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 6 years late

Boost Clock1493MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950M

1.114 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile +71%

1.911 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950M

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GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jan 2017

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 10 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1354 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1493 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1752 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

112.1GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

5

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

640

48

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.89 GPixel/s

27.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

59.72 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

29.86 GFLOPS

1114 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.911 TFLOPS

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FP64 (double)

59.72 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

GP107

Blackcomb PRO

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

3.3 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

132 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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