AMD Radeon HD 6950M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5830

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AMD Radeon HD 6950M ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5830

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6950M and 1024MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 5830 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6950M 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

160 additional rendering cores

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5830 's Advantages

Lower TDP (24W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950M +39%

1.114 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 5830

0.8 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950M

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Mobility Radeon HD 5830

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jan 2010

Vancouver

Generation

Manhattan

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

10

960

Shading Units

800

48

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.000 GPixel/s

27.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

20.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1114 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

800.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

Broadway

Blackcomb PRO

GPU Variant

Broadway LE

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

1.04 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

166 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

24W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.0

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