
Radeon HD 6530 and Radeon HD 5950 - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6530
Radeon HD 5950
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Redwood
Hemlock
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2011
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Core clock speed
650 MHz
725 MHz
Floating-point performance
520.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
627 million
2,154 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
400
1440
Power consumption (TDP)
39 Watt
302 Watt
Texture fill rate
13.00
52.20
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1200 MHz
4 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
19.2 GB/s
128.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
2x DVI, 1x HDMI 1.3a, 1x DisplayPort 1.1
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.4
Shader Model
5.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A