Radeon HD 6950 and FirePro W5100 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6950 vs FirePro W5100
Radeon HD 6950
2693
FirePro W5100
3104
Radeon HD 6950
FirePro W5100
Architecture
TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code name
Cayman
Bonaire
Market segment
Desktop
Workstation
Release date
December 2010
March 2014
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
-
930 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,252.8 gflops
1,428 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,640 million
2,080 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1408
768
Power consumption (TDP)
500 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
70.40
44.64
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
96 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
4x DisplayPort
Eyefinity
1
-
DisplayPort count
-
4
Dual-link DVI support
-
1
HD сomponent video output
-
1
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12 (12_0)
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.3
Vulkan
-
1.2.131
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
StereoOutput3D
-
1
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-