AMD Radeon HD 6950M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

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AMD Radeon HD 6950M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

We compared a Mobile platform GPU: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6950M and a Desktop platform GPU: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 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 120W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950M

1.114 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB +292%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950M

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jul 2016

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 10

Mobile

Type

Desktop

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1506 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

10

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

1280

48

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

82.03 GPixel/s

27.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

1114 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

GP106

Blackcomb PRO

GPU Variant

GP106-400-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

16 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

120W

-

Suggested PSU

300 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

-

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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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