Radeon HD 6950 and Radeon 530 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6950 vs Radeon 530
Radeon HD 6950
2693
Radeon 530
1048
Radeon HD 6950
Radeon 530
Architecture
TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
Cayman
Meso
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
December 2010
March 2017
Bus support
PCIe 2.0 x16
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
800 MHz
1024 MHz
Core clock speed
-
1024 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,252.8 gflops
784.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,640 million
1,550 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1408
384
Power consumption (TDP)
500 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
70.40
24.50
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3/GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
28.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12.0
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.4
4.5
Shader Model
5.0
5.0
Vulkan
-
+
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-