GPU Comparison
RADEON
AMD Radeon HD 6950
CORE STATE
Cayman
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
200 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
TeraScale 3
PROCESS
40 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2010
VS
GPU
Iris Xe MAX Graphics
CORE STATE
DG1
VRAM
4 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1650 MHz
TDP
25 W
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Generation 12.1
PROCESS
10 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2020
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
HD 6950
Iris Xe MAX Graphics
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,408
768
-45.5%
Shaders
1,408
768
-45.5%
TMUs
88
48
-45.5%
ROPs
32
24
-25.0%
Compute Units
22
—
Execution Units
—
96
Clocks
Base Clock
—
300 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1650 MHz
GPU Clock
800 MHz
—
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
5 Gbps effective
2133 MHz
4.3 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
2 GB
4 GB
VRAM (MB)
2,048
4,096
+100.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
LPDDR4X
Memory Bus
256 bit
128 bit
Bandwidth
160.0 GB/s
68.26 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
—
L2 Cache
512 KB
1024 KB
L3 Cache
—
16 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
25.60 GPixel/s
39.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
70.40 GTexel/s
79.20 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
2.253 TFLOPS
2.534 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
563.2 GFLOPS (1:4)
633.6 GFLOPS (1:4)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
5.069 TFLOPS (2:1)
Power
TDP
200 W
25 W
TDP (W)
200
25
-87.5%
Suggested PSU
550 W
200 W
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
—
Architecture
Architecture
TeraScale 3
Generation 12.1
GPU Name
Cayman
DG1
Generation
Northern Islands
(HD 6900)
Xe Graphics
Process Size
40 nm
10 nm
Transistors
2,640 million
—
Die Size
389 mm²
95 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
Intel
Density
6.8M / mm²
—
API Support
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Vulkan
—
1.4
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Shader Model
5.0
6.6
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
IGP
Length
286 mm
11.3 inches
—
Height
126 mm
5 inches
—
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Other
Launch Price
299 USD
—
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Evergreen
Graphics
Successor
Southern Islands
Alchemist