Radeon HD 6950 and Radeon R5 230 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6950 vs Radeon R5 230
Radeon HD 6950
2693
Radeon R5 230
228
Radeon HD 6950
Radeon R5 230
Architecture
TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Cayman
Caicos
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2010
April 2014
Bus support
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x4
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
N/A
Boost clock speed
800 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
2,252.8 gflops
200.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2,640 million
370 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1408
160
Power consumption (TDP)
500 Watt
19 Watt
Texture fill rate
70.40
5.000
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
-
Memory bandwidth
-
10.67 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Eyefinity
1
1
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
DirectX® 11
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.4
Shader Model
5.0
5.0
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
1
DDMA audio
-
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerPlay
-
+
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-