AMD Radeon HD 6950M vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6950M and AMD Radeon HD 6970M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon HD 6950M

AMD Radeon HD 6970M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6950M

Around 50% lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 75 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 75 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6970M

Around 17% higher core clock speed: 680 MHz vs 580 MHz
Around 17% higher texture fill rate: 32.6 GTexel / s vs 27.84 GTexel / s
Around 17% better floating-point performance: 1,305.6 gflops vs 1,113.6 gflops

Core clock speed	680 MHz vs 580 MHz
Texture fill rate	32.6 GTexel / s vs 27.84 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance	1,305.6 gflops vs 1,113.6 gflops

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6950M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6970M

Name	AMD Radeon HD 6950M	AMD Radeon HD 6970M
PassMark - G3D Mark		2270
PassMark - G2D Mark		656
Geekbench - OpenCL		3349
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		4.787
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		617.819
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		0.927
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		24.456
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		117.801
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3229
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3342
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3229
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3342

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6950M	AMD Radeon HD 6970M
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	TeraScale 2
Code name	Blackcomb	Blackcomb
Launch date	4 January 2011	4 January 2011
Place in performance rating	not rated	790
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	580 MHz	680 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,113.6 gflops	1,305.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	960	960
Texture fill rate	27.84 GTexel / s	32.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	75 Watt
Transistor count	1,700 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
Supplementary power connectors		None
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	115.2 GB / s	115.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	3600 MHz	3600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory	0	0