Radeon HD 6950 and HD Graphics 3000 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6950 vs HD Graphics 3000
Radeon HD 6950
2693
HD Graphics 3000
262
Radeon HD 6950
HD Graphics 3000
Architecture
TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
Gen. 6 Sandy Bridge (2011)
GPU code name
Cayman
Sandy Bridge
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
December 2010
February 2011
Bus support
PCIe 2.0 x16
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
-
Boost clock speed
800 MHz
1350 MHz
Core clock speed
-
350 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,252.8 gflops
20.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
32 nm
Number of transistors
2,640 million
995 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1408
12
Power consumption (TDP)
500 Watt
unknown
Texture fill rate
70.40
13.80
Memory type
GDDR5
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
System Shared
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
System Shared
Shared memory
-
+
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
No outputs
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
11.1 (10_1)
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.4
3.1
Shader Model
5.0
4.1
Vulkan
-
N/A
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-