Radeon HD 6950 and GeForce GT 430 PCI - video card comparison

Radeon HD 6950

GeForce GT 430 PCI

Architecture

TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)

Fermi (2010−2014)

GPU code name

Cayman

GF108

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

December 2010

October 2010

Bus support

PCIe 2.0 x16

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

None

Boost clock speed

800 MHz

-

Core clock speed

-

700 MHz

Floating-point performance

2,252.8 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

2,640 million

585 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1408

96

Power consumption (TDP)

500 Watt

49 Watt

Texture fill rate

70.40

11.20

Memory type

GDDR5

DDR3

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

512 MB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

1250 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory bandwidth

-

9.6 GB/s

Display Connectors

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

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA

Eyefinity

1

-

HDMI

+

+

DisplayPort support

-

-

DirectX

DirectX® 11

12 (11_0)

CUDA

-

2.1

Mantle

-

-

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

OpenGL

4.4

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

5.1

Vulkan

-

N/A

AppAcceleration

-

-

CrossFire

1

-

Enduro

-

-

HD3D

-

-

PowerTune

-

-

TrueAudio

-

-

ZeroCore

-

-