AMD Radeon HD 6870M vs AMD Radeon HD 6950M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6870M and AMD Radeon HD 6950M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6870M

  • Around 16% higher core clock speed: 675 MHz vs 580 MHz
  • Around 11% higher memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 3600 MHz
Core clock speed 675 MHz vs 580 MHz
Memory clock speed 4000 MHz vs 3600 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6950M

  • Around 3% higher texture fill rate: 27.84 GTexel / s vs 27 GTexel / s
  • Around 20% higher pipelines: 960 vs 800
  • Around 3% better floating-point performance: 1,113.6 gflops vs 1,080.0 gflops
Texture fill rate 27.84 GTexel / s vs 27 GTexel / s
Pipelines 960 vs 800
Floating-point performance 1,113.6 gflops vs 1,080.0 gflops

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 6870M AMD Radeon HD 6950M

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 TeraScale 2
Code name Granville Blackcomb
Launch date 4 January 2011 4 January 2011
Place in performance rating not rated not rated
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 675 MHz 580 MHz
Floating-point performance 1,080.0 gflops 1,113.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 800 960
Texture fill rate 27 GTexel / s 27.84 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt 50 Watt
Transistor count 1,040 million 1,700 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface MXM-B (3.0) MXM-B (3.0)
Laptop size large large

API support

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.4 4.4

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 64.0 GB / s 115.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 4000 MHz 3600 MHz
Memory type DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 GDDR5
Shared memory 0 0

Technologies

HDMI 1.3a

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