Radeon HD 6950M Overview

Radeon HD 6950M
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 4 Jan 2011
Radeon HD 6950M

Core Configuration

GPU Blackcomb
Architecture ATI_TeraScale
Shaders : TMUs : ROPs 960 : 48 : 32
Raytracing Cores none
Performance 1113.60 GFLOPs

Memory Configuration

Memory Size 1024 Mb
Memory Bus Width 256 bit
Memory Speed 900 MHz
3600 MHz effective
Memory Bandwidth 115.20 Gb/s

Summary

Relative performance

  • Radeon R5 M230
    100%
  • Radeon HD 8550M
    99%
  • Radeon HD 8530M
    98%
  • Radeon HD 8730M
    98%
  • Radeon HD 8570M
    96%
  • Radeon HD 8590M
    96%
  • Radeon HD 8690M
    96%
  • GeForce GT 640M
    93%
  • GeForce GT 735M
    85%
  • Radeon HD 8670A
    84%
  • GeForce GT 745M Rev. 2
    81%
  • GeForce GT 640M LE
    74%
  • GeForce 710M
    53%
  • Radeon HD 6990M
    18%
  • Radeon HD 6970M
    14%
  • Radeon HD 6950M
    12%
  • Radeon HD 6850M
    12%
  • Radeon HD 6870M
    12%
  • GeForce GTX 675M
    10%
  • GeForce GTX 580M
    10%
  • Radeon HD 6830M
    10%
  • GeForce GTX 485M
    10%
  • GeForce GTX 670M
    9%
  • GeForce GTX 570M
    8%
  • Radeon HD 7690M XT
    7%
  • Radeon HD 7690M
    7%
  • Radeon HD 6730M
    7%
  • Radeon HD 6770M
    7%
  • GeForce GTX 560M
    6%
  • Radeon HD 7670M
    6%

Data interpolated by architecture, based on benchmarks charts.

The Radeon HD 6950M is a graphics card released by AMD on 4 Jan 2011. The graphics card houses the Blackcomb die, based on the ATI_TeraScale architecture which packs 1,700 million transistors on a 40 nm, 212 mm2 die.

Radeon HD 6950M pros and cons

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications



Specifications


Compared to similar performing cards

Radeon HD 6950MRadeon R5 M230Radeon HD 6970MRadeon HD 6850MRadeon HD 6870M
Radeon HD 6950MRadeon R5 M230Radeon HD 6970MRadeon HD 6850MRadeon HD 6870M
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Shader units960320960800800
ROPs328321616
Graphics processorBlackcombJetBlackcombGranvilleGranville
Process size40 nm28 nm40 nm40 nm40 nm
Memory1024 Mb GDDR5 (900 MHz
3600 MHz effective)
4096 Mb DDR3 (1000 MHz
2000 MHz effective)
1024 Mb GDDR5 (900 MHz
3600 MHz effective)
1024 Mb GDDR3 (800 MHz
1600 MHz effective)
1024 Mb GDDR5 (1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective)
Memory bus width256 bit64 bit256 bit128 bit128 bit
Memory bandwidth115.20 Gb/s16.00 Gb/s115.20 Gb/s25.60 Gb/s64.00 Gb/s
Release date4 Jan 20117 Jan 20144 Jan 20114 Jan 20114 Jan 2011