Radeon HD 6950 and Radeon RX Vega 7 - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6950
Radeon RX Vega 7
Architecture
TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
Vega (2017−2021)
GPU code name
Cayman
Vega Raven Ridge
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
December 2010
January 2020
Bus support
PCIe 2.0 x16
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Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
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Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
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Boost clock speed
800 MHz
1800 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,252.8 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
2,640 million
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Pipelines / CUDA cores
1408
448
Power consumption (TDP)
500 Watt
15 Watt
Texture fill rate
70.40
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Memory type
GDDR5
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Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
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Memory bus width
256 Bit
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Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
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Shared memory
-
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Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
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Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12_1
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
-
OpenGL
4.4
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Shader Model
5.0
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AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
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