Radeon HD 6950 and Radeon HD 8350 OEM - video card comparison

Radeon HD 6950

Radeon HD 8350 OEM

Architecture

TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)

TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)

GPU code name

Cayman

Cedar

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

December 2010

January 2013

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

-

650 MHz

Floating-point performance

2,252.8 gflops

104.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

2,640 million

292 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1408

80

Power consumption (TDP)

500 Watt

19 Watt

Texture fill rate

70.40

5.200

Memory type

GDDR5

DDR3

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

1 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

1250 MHz

1334 MHz

Memory bandwidth

-

10.67 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort

1x DVI, 1x HDMI

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

-

-