AMD Radeon HD 6950M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M

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AMD Radeon HD 6950M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6950M and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460M 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 60.00GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950M +115%

1.114 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460M

0.518 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950M

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GeForce GTX 460M

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Sep 2010

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 400M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

625 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

60.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

192

48

TMUs

32

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

27.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

21.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1114 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

518.4 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

43.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

GF106

Blackcomb PRO

GPU Variant

N11E-GS-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

1.17 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

238 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

50W

-

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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