Radeon HD 6950 and GeForce 840M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6950 vs GeForce 840M
Radeon HD 6950
2693
GeForce 840M
1121
Radeon HD 6950
GeForce 840M
Architecture
TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
Cayman
N15S-GT
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
December 2010
March 2014
Bus support
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
-
Boost clock speed
800 MHz
1124 MHz
Core clock speed
-
1029 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,252.8 gflops
863.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,640 million
-
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1408
384
Power consumption (TDP)
500 Watt
33 Watt
Texture fill rate
70.40
17.98
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
16.02 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
No outputs
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
+
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.5
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
-
1.1.126
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
GameWorks
-
+
GPU Boost
-
2.0
HD3D
-
-
Optimus
-
+
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-