Radeon HD 6950M and FirePro M7820 - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6950M
FirePro M7820
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Blackcomb Pro
Broadway
Market segment
Laptop
Mobile workstation
Release date
January 2011
May 2010
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Core clock speed
580 MHz
700 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,113.6 gflops
1,120.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
1,040 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
800
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
27.84
28.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
115.2 GB/s
64 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.4
Shader Model
5.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A