Radeon HD 6950 and Radeon HD 5850 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6950 vs Radeon HD 5850
Radeon HD 6950
2693
Radeon HD 5850
2048
Radeon HD 6950
Radeon HD 5850
Architecture
TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Cayman
Cypress
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2010
September 2009
Bus support
PCIe 2.0 x16
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
2x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
800 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
725 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,252.8 gflops
2,088.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2,640 million
2,154 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1408
1440
Power consumption (TDP)
500 Watt
151 Watt
Texture fill rate
70.40
52.20
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
128.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
11.2 (11_0)
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.4
Shader Model
5.0
5.0
Vulkan
-
N/A
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-