GeForce 6800 and Radeon HD 7950M - video card comparison
GeForce 6800
Radeon HD 7950M
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
NV41
Wimbledon Pro
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
November 2004
May 2012
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Core clock speed
325 MHz
700 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
130 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
190 million
2,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
-
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.900
56.00
Memory type
DDR
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
600 MBps
4000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
19.2 GB/s
128.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
No outputs
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
12 (11_1)
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
OpenGL
2.0 (full)
Shader Model
3.05.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131