AMD Radeon R7 M460 vs AMD Radeon HD 6950M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 M460 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6950M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 M460 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1024MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

AMD Radeon HD 6950M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 36.00GB/s)

576 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 M460

0.786 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950M +41%

1.114 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 M460

VS

Radeon HD 6950M

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Jan 2011

Gem System

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

730 MHz

Base Clock

-

1024 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

36.00GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

6

Compute Units

12

384

Shading Units

960

24

TMUs

48

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

8.192 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.56 GPixel/s

24.58 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.84 GTexel/s

786.4 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

786.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1114 GFLOPS

49.15 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Meso

GPU Name

Blackcomb

Meso XT (216-0864018)

GPU Variant

Blackcomb PRO

GCN 3.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.55 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

125 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

50W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.0

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