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 670MX
CORE STATE
GK104
VRAM
3 GB
CLOCK SPEED
601 MHz
TDP
75 W
BUS WIDTH
192 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Kepler
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2012
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
HD 6950
GTX 670MX
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,408
960
-31.8%
Shaders
1,408
960
-31.8%
TMUs
88
80
-9.1%
ROPs
32
24
-25.0%
Compute Units
22
—
Clocks
Base Clock
—
601 MHz
Boost Clock
—
601 MHz
GPU Clock
800 MHz
—
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
5 Gbps effective
700 MHz
2.8 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
2 GB
3 GB
VRAM (MB)
2,048
3,072
+50.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256 bit
192 bit
Bandwidth
160.0 GB/s
67.20 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per SMX)
L2 Cache
512 KB
384 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
25.60 GPixel/s
12.02 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
70.40 GTexel/s
48.08 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
2.253 TFLOPS
1,153.9 GFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
563.2 GFLOPS (1:4)
48.08 GFLOPS (1:24)
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
Kepler
GPU Name
Cayman
GK104
Generation
Northern Islands
(HD 6900)
GeForce 600M
Process Size
40 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2,640 million
3,540 million
Die Size
389 mm²
294 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
6.8M / mm²
12.0M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Vulkan
—
1.2.175
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
CUDA
—
3.0
Shader Model
5.0
6.5 (5.1)
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
—
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
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
299 USD
—
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Evergreen
GeForce 500M
Successor
Southern Islands
GeForce 700M