Radeon HD 6950M and M9 - video card comparison

Radeon HD 6950M

M9

Architecture

Terascale 2 (2009−2015)

Rage 7 (2001−2006)

GPU code name

Blackcomb Pro

M9

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

January 2011

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Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

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Core clock speed

580 MHz

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Floating-point performance

1,113.6 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

150 nm

Number of transistors

1,700 million

36 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

960

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Power consumption (TDP)

50 Watt

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Texture fill rate

27.84

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Memory type

GDDR5

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Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

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Memory bus width

256 Bit

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Memory clock speed

900 MHz

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Memory bandwidth

115.2 GB/s

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Shared memory

-

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Display Connectors

No outputs

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DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

8.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

OpenGL

4.4

1.4

Shader Model

5.0

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Vulkan

N/A

N/A