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.

 

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

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