Radeon HD 6950 and FirePro W5000 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6950 vs FirePro W5000
Radeon HD 6950
2693
FirePro W5000
3066
Radeon HD 6950
FirePro W5000
Architecture
TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
Cayman
Pitcairn
Market segment
Desktop
Workstation
Release date
December 2010
August 2012
Bus support
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
800 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
825 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,252.8 gflops
1,267 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,640 million
2,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1408
768
Power consumption (TDP)
500 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
70.40
39.60
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
3200 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
102.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort
Eyefinity
1
-
DisplayPort count
-
2
Dual-link DVI support
-
1
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12 (11_1)
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
-
1.2.131
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-