AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs AMD Radeon HD 6610M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6610M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8950M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

288 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6610M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (26W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950M +282%

1.651 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6610M

0.432 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

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Radeon HD 6610M

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Jan 2011

Solar System

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

6

768

Shading Units

480

48

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.600 GPixel/s

51.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.651 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

432.0 GFLOPS

103.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

Whistler

Saturn XT

GPU Variant

Whistler LP

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.716 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

26W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.0

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