AMD Radeon HD 6950M
VS
AMD Radeon 530
AMD Radeon HD 6950M
VS
AMD Radeon 530

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Radeon HD 6950M and AMD Radeon 530. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

475
Place in performance rating
670
Terascale 2
Architecture
GCN
Blackcomb
Code name
Meso
Laptop
Type
Laptop
6 January 2011 (10 years ago)
Release date
21 March 2017 (4 years ago)
$338
Price now
$627
0.87
Value for money
0.97
Blackcomb Pro
GPU code name
Meso
Laptop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Radeon HD 6950M and AMD Radeon 530 based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

960
Pipelines
384
580 MHz
Core clock speed
1024 MHz
1,700 million
Transistor count
no data
40 nm
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
50 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
27.84
Texture fill rate
24.50
1,113.6 gflops
Floating-point performance
784.1 gflops
960
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
no data
Boost clock speed
1024 MHz
1,700 million
Number of transistors
1,550 million
50 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
50 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Radeon HD 6950M and AMD Radeon 530.

MXM-B (3.0)
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
no data
Supplementary power connectors
None
large
Laptop size
no data

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics AMD Radeon HD 6950M and AMD Radeon 530 can be seen in this section.

GDDR5
Memory type
DDR3/GDDR5
2 GB
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
256 Bit
Memory bus width
64 Bit
900 MHz
Memory clock speed
2250 MHz
115.2 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
28.8 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Radeon HD 6950M and AMD Radeon 530, the size and number of monitors.

No outputs
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
no data
HDMI
+

API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Radeon HD 6950M and AMD Radeon 530. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
DirectX 12, Shader 5.0
4.4
OpenGL
4.5
no data
Vulkan
+

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Radeon HD 6950M and AMD Radeon 530 graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD Radeon HD 6950M or AMD Radeon 530 good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Radeon HD 6950M
AMD Radeon 530
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Radeon HD 6950M
AMD Radeon 530
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Radeon HD 6950M
AMD Radeon 530
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Radeon HD 6950M
AMD Radeon 530 45.6 16.9 10.8
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Radeon HD 6950M
AMD Radeon 530 16.5
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of AMD Radeon HD 6950M

3.55% faster in synthetic tests

Cheaper ($338 vs $627)

More pipelines (960 vs 384)

More memory bandwidth (115.2 GB/s vs 28.8 GB/s)

Advantages of AMD Radeon 530

Finer manufacturing process technology (28 nm vs 40 nm)

More maximum RAM amount (4 GB vs 2 GB)

So, AMD Radeon HD 6950M or AMD Radeon 530?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon HD 6950M .

AMD Radeon HD 6950M versus AMD Radeon 530 performance benchmarks comparison

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