Radeon HD 6950 and GeForce MX450 30.5W 8Gbps - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6950
GeForce MX450 30.5W 8Gbps
Architecture
TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
Turing (2018−2021)
GPU code name
Cayman
TU117
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2010
August 2020
Bus support
PCIe 2.0 x16
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x4
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
800 MHz
1275 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,252.8 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
12 nm
Number of transistors
2,640 million
4,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1408
896
Power consumption (TDP)
500 Watt
31 Watt
Texture fill rate
70.40
71.40
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
8 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
-
64 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
No outputs
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
7.5
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.5
Vulkan
-
1.2
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-