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).

 

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

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