Radeon HD 6950M and T550 Mobile - video card comparison

Radeon HD 6950M

T550 Mobile

Architecture

Terascale 2 (2009−2015)

Turing (2018−2021)

GPU code name

Blackcomb Pro

TU117

Market segment

Laptop

Laptop

Release date

January 2011

May 2022

Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

PCIe 3.0 x16

Boost clock speed

-

1665 MHz

Core clock speed

580 MHz

1065 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,113.6 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

12 nm

Number of transistors

1,700 million

4,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

960

1024

Power consumption (TDP)

50 Watt

25 Watt (20 - 60 Watt TGP)

Texture fill rate

27.84

106.6

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR5, GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

900 MHz

12000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

115.2 GB/s

96 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

No outputs

No outputs

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

-

7.5

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.4

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

6.6

Vulkan

N/A

1.3