Radeon HD 6950 and Iris Xe Graphics 96EU - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6950
Iris Xe Graphics 96EU
Architecture
TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
Generation 12.2 (2021−2022)
GPU code name
Cayman
Alder Lake GT1
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2010
January 2022
Bus support
PCIe 2.0 x16
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Ring Bus
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
-
Boost clock speed
800 MHz
1400 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,252.8 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
10 nm
Number of transistors
2,640 million
-
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1408
768
Power consumption (TDP)
500 Watt
45 Watt
Texture fill rate
70.40
67.20
Memory type
GDDR5
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
System Shared
Memory bus width
256 Bit
System Shared
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
System Shared
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
No outputs
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12 (12_1)
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.4
Vulkan
-
1.3
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-