AMD Radeon HD 6970M vs AMD FirePro W6150M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M and 4GB VRAM FirePro W6150M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W6150M 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M

1.306 TFLOPS

FirePro W6150M +26%

1.651 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M

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FirePro W6150M

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Nov 2015

Vancouver

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

12

960

Shading Units

768

48

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.20 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.651 TFLOPS

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FP64 (double)

103.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

Emerald

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

Emerald XT GL (216-0857001)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.5

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