Radeon HD 6950M and GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6950M
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
Blackcomb Pro
GP108
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2011
March 2018
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x4
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Boost clock speed
-
1379 MHz
Core clock speed
580 MHz
1152 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,113.6 gflops
1,059 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
1,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
384
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
20 Watt
Texture fill rate
27.84
33.10
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR4
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
2100 MHz
Memory bandwidth
115.2 GB/s
16.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
6.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.4
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131