AMD Radeon HD 6950M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 550v

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AMD Radeon HD 6950M ATI Mobility Radeon HD 550v

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6950M and 1024MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 550v to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6950M 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 19.20GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 550v 's Advantages

Lower TDP (10W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950M +286%

1.114 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 550v

0.288 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950M

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Mobility Radeon HD 550v

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

May 2010

Vancouver

Generation

M9x

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

19.20GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

4

960

Shading Units

320

48

TMUs

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.600 GPixel/s

27.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

14.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1114 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

288.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

M96

Blackcomb PRO

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.514 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

146 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

10W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

4.1

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