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
GEFORCE
GeForce GTX 560M
CORE STATE
GF116
VRAM
1536 MB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
75 W
BUS WIDTH
192 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Fermi 2.0
PROCESS
40 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2011
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
HD 6950
GTX 560M
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,408
192
-86.4%
Shaders
1,408
192
-86.4%
TMUs
88
32
-63.6%
ROPs
32
24
-25.0%
Compute Units
22
—
SM Count
—
4
Clocks
GPU Clock
800 MHz
775 MHz
Shader Clock
—
1550 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
5 Gbps effective
625 MHz
2.5 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
2 GB
1536 MB
VRAM (MB)
2,048
1,536
-25.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256 bit
192 bit
Bandwidth
160.0 GB/s
60.00 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
384 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
25.60 GPixel/s
6.200 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
70.40 GTexel/s
24.80 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
2.253 TFLOPS
595.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
563.2 GFLOPS (1:4)
49.60 GFLOPS (1:12)
Power
TDP
200 W
75 W
TDP (W)
200
75
-62.5%
Suggested PSU
550 W
—
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Architecture
Architecture
TeraScale 3
Fermi 2.0
GPU Name
Cayman
GF116
Generation
Northern Islands
(HD 6900)
GeForce 500M
Process Size
40 nm
40 nm
Transistors
2,640 million
1,170 million
Die Size
389 mm²
238 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
6.8M / mm²
4.9M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
CUDA
—
2.1
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
MXM Module
Length
286 mm
11.3 inches
—
Height
126 mm
5 inches
—
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Portable Device Dependent
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Other
Launch Price
299 USD
—
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Evergreen
GeForce 400M
Successor
Southern Islands
GeForce 600M