AMD Radeon HD 6950M vs AMD Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand

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AMD Radeon HD 6950M AMD Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6950M and 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand 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 R5 M230 Rebrand 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock850MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950M +104%

1.114 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand

0.544 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950M

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Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

May 2014

Vancouver

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

780 MHz

-

Boost Clock

850 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

5

960

Shading Units

320

48

TMUs

20

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

6.800 GPixel/s

27.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1114 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

544.0 GFLOPS

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FP64 (double)

34.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

Sun

Blackcomb PRO

GPU Variant

Sun LE

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.69 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

56 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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