AMD Radeon HD 6950M vs AMD Radeon HD 8530M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6950M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8530M 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 14.40GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8530M 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Boost Clock700MHz

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950M +148%

1.114 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8530M

0.448 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950M

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Radeon HD 8530M

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jan 2014

Vancouver

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

650 MHz

-

Boost Clock

700 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

6

960

Shading Units

320

48

TMUs

16

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

5.600 GPixel/s

27.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1114 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

448.0 GFLOPS

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FP64 (double)

28.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

Mars

Blackcomb PRO

GPU Variant

Mars S3 LE (216-0842054)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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