Radeon HD 6950 and Radeon 8500 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6950 vs Radeon 8500
Radeon HD 6950
2693
Radeon 8500
6
Radeon HD 6950
Radeon 8500
Architecture
TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code name
Cayman
R200
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2010
August 2001
Bus support
PCIe 2.0 x16
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
800 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
275 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,252.8 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
2,640 million
60 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1408
-
Power consumption (TDP)
500 Watt
23 Watt
Texture fill rate
70.40
2.200
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
64 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
550 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
8.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
8.1
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.4
1.4
Shader Model
5.0
-
Vulkan
-
N/A
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-