AMD Radeon HD 6950M vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6950M and AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

AMD Radeon HD 6950M

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6950M

Around 20% higher pipelines: 960 vs 800
Around 50% lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 75 Watt

Pipelines	960 vs 800
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 75 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand

Around 38% higher core clock speed: 800 MHz vs 580 MHz
Around 15% higher texture fill rate: 32.0 GTexel / s vs 27.84 GTexel / s
Around 15% better floating-point performance: 1,280.0 gflops vs 1,113.6 gflops
Around 11% higher memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 3600 MHz

Core clock speed	800 MHz vs 580 MHz
Texture fill rate	32.0 GTexel / s vs 27.84 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance	1,280.0 gflops vs 1,113.6 gflops
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz vs 3600 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6950M	AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	TeraScale 2
Code name	Blackcomb	Broadway
Launch date	4 January 2011	4 January 2011
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	580 MHz	800 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,113.6 gflops	1,280.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	960	800
Texture fill rate	27.84 GTexel / s	32.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	75 Watt
Transistor count	1,700 million	1,040 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
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	64.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	3600 MHz	4000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory	0