Quadro M520 and Radeon HD 6950M - video card comparison
Quadro M520
Radeon HD 6950M
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
GM108
Blackcomb Pro
Market segment
Mobile workstation
Laptop
Release date
January 2017
January 2011
Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Boost clock speed
1019 MHz
-
Core clock speed
756 MHz
580 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
1,113.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
-
1,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
960
Power consumption (TDP)
25 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
16.66
27.84
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
5012 MHz
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
40 GB/s
115.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
5.0
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.4
Shader Model
5.0
5.0
Vulkan
1.1.126
N/A
3D Stereo
+
-
nView Display Management
+
-
Optimus
+
-