Radeon HD 6950 and Radeon RX 540 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6950 vs Radeon RX 540
Radeon HD 6950
2693
Radeon RX 540
2872
Radeon HD 6950
Radeon RX 540
Architecture
TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name
Cayman
Polaris 12
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
December 2010
March 2017
Bus support
PCIe 2.0 x16
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
800 MHz
1219 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,252.8 gflops
1,248 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
2,640 million
1,500 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1408
512
Power consumption (TDP)
500 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
70.40
39.01
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
96 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
No outputs
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12.0
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
5.0
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
-
+
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-