Radeon HD 6950 and GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 - video card comparison

Radeon HD 6950

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

Architecture

TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)

Pascal (2016−2021)

GPU code name

Cayman

GP108

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

December 2010

March 2018

Bus support

PCIe 2.0 x16

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x4

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

None

Boost clock speed

800 MHz

1379 MHz

Core clock speed

-

1152 MHz

Floating-point performance

2,252.8 gflops

1,059 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

2,640 million

1,800 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1408

384

Power consumption (TDP)

500 Watt

20 Watt

Texture fill rate

70.40

33.10

Memory type

GDDR5

DDR4

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

2 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

1250 MHz

2100 MHz

Memory bandwidth

-

16.8 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort

1x DVI, 1x HDMI

Eyefinity

1

-

HDMI

+

+

DisplayPort support

-

-

DirectX

DirectX® 11

12 (12_1)

CUDA

-

6.1

Mantle

-

-

OpenCL

1.2

1.2

OpenGL

4.4

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

6.4

Vulkan

-

1.2.131

AppAcceleration

-

-

CrossFire

1

-

Enduro

-

-

HD3D

-

-

PowerTune

-

-

TrueAudio

-

-

ZeroCore

-

-