Radeon HD 6950 and GeForce GTX 460 v2 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6950 vs GeForce GTX 460 v2
Radeon HD 6950
2693
GeForce GTX 460 v2
1927
Radeon HD 6950
GeForce GTX 460 v2
Architecture
TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Cayman
GF114
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2010
September 2011
Bus support
PCIe 2.0 x16
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
2x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
800 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
779 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,252.8 gflops
1,045.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2,640 million
1,950 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1408
336
Power consumption (TDP)
500 Watt
160 Watt
Texture fill rate
70.40
43.62
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
4008 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
96.19 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
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
-
-