Radeon E8950 and GeForce 6500 - video card comparison
Radeon E8950
GeForce 6500
Architecture
GCN 3.0 (2014−2017)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
Amethyst
NV44 A2
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2015
October 2005
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
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Boost clock speed
1000 MHz
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Core clock speed
735 MHz
400 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,096 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
110 nm
Number of transistors
5,000 million
75 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
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Power consumption (TDP)
95 Watt
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Texture fill rate
128.0
1.600
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
128 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
532 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.0 GB/s
8.512 GB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
12 (12_0)
9.0c (9_3)
OpenCL
2.0
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
Shader Model
6.3
3.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A