GeForce GTX 560M and Radeon HD 6950M - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 560M
Radeon HD 6950M
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
N12E-GS
Blackcomb Pro
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
May 2011
January 2011
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
SLI options
2-way
-
Core clock speed
775 MHz
580 MHz
CUDA cores
192
-
Floating-point performance
595.2 gflops
1,113.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,170 million
1,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
192
960
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
24.8 billion/sec
27.84
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
2 GB
Memory bus width
Up to 192 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
Up to 60 GB/s
115.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 API
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
3D Blu-Ray
+
-
3D Gaming
+
-
Optimus
+
-