AMD Radeon HD 6950M: specs and benchmarks

Summary

AMD started Radeon HD 6950M sales 6 January 2011. This is Terascale 2 architecture notebook card based on 40 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 2 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 900 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 115.2 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via MXM-B (3.0) interface. Power consumption is at 50 Watt.

General info

Of Radeon HD 6950M's architecture, market segment and release date.

Place in performance rating	496
Value for money	0.84
Architecture	Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name	Blackcomb Pro
Market segment	Laptop
Release date	6 January 2011 (11 years ago)
Price now	$338	of 49999 (A100 SXM4)

Technical specs

Radeon HD 6950M's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon HD 6950M's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	960	of 18432 (AD102)
Core clock speed	580 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors	1,700 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	of 4 (H100 PCIe)
Thermal design power (TDP)	50 Watt	of 900 (Tesla S2050)
Texture fill rate	27.84	of 939.8 (H100 SXM5)
Floating-point performance	1,113.6 gflops	of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on Radeon HD 6950M's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop size	large
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon HD 6950M: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	of 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory bus width	256 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	900 MHz	of 19500 (GeForce RTX 3090)
Memory bandwidth	115.2 GB/s	of 14400 (Radeon R7 M260)
Shared memory	-

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon HD 6950M. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference video cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model.

Display Connectors

No outputs

API support

APIs supported by Radeon HD 6950M, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model	5.0
OpenGL	4.4	of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile)
OpenCL	1.2
Vulkan	N/A

Benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance of Radeon HD 6950M. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

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Overall score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Game benchmarks

Let's see how good Radeon HD 6950M is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	7−8
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	7−8
Battlefield 5	7−8
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	7−8
Cyberpunk 2077	7−8
Far Cry 5	7−8
Far Cry New Dawn	7−8
Forza Horizon 4	7−8
Hitman 3	7−8
Horizon Zero Dawn	7−8
Red Dead Redemption 2	7−8
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	7−8
Watch Dogs: Legion	7−8

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	7−8
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	7−8
Battlefield 5	7−8
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	7−8
Cyberpunk 2077	7−8
Far Cry 5	7−8
Far Cry New Dawn	7−8
Forza Horizon 4	7−8
Hitman 3	7−8
Horizon Zero Dawn	7−8
Metro Exodus	7−8
Red Dead Redemption 2	7−8
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	7−8
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	7−8
Watch Dogs: Legion	7−8

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	7−8
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	7−8
Battlefield 5	7−8
Cyberpunk 2077	7−8
Far Cry 5	7−8
Far Cry New Dawn	7−8
Forza Horizon 4	7−8
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	7−8
Watch Dogs: Legion	7−8

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	7−8
Hitman 3	7−8
Horizon Zero Dawn	7−8
Metro Exodus	7−8
Red Dead Redemption 2	7−8
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	7−8

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	7−8
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	7−8
Battlefield 5	7−8
Cyberpunk 2077	7−8
Far Cry 5	7−8
Far Cry New Dawn	7−8
Forza Horizon 4	7−8
Watch Dogs: Legion	7−8

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	7−8
Hitman 3	7−8
Horizon Zero Dawn	7−8
Metro Exodus	7−8
Red Dead Redemption 2	7−8
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	7−8
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	7−8

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	7−8
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	7−8
Battlefield 5	7−8
Cyberpunk 2077	7−8
Far Cry 5	7−8
Far Cry New Dawn	7−8
Forza Horizon 4	7−8
Watch Dogs: Legion	7−8

Relative perfomance

Overall Radeon HD 6950M performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook video cards.

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