Radeon HD 6950 and Quadro FX 1800 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6950 vs Quadro FX 1800
Radeon HD 6950
2693
Quadro FX 1800
414
Radeon HD 6950
Quadro FX 1800
Architecture
TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
Cayman
G94
Market segment
Desktop
Workstation
Release date
December 2010
March 2009
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
-
550 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,252.8 gflops
176 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
2,640 million
505 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1408
64
Power consumption (TDP)
500 Watt
59 Watt
Texture fill rate
70.40
17.60
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
768 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
38.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
3.3
Shader Model
5.0
4.0
Vulkan
-
N/A
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-