Radeon HD 6950M and Radeon 530 - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6950M
Radeon 530
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
Blackcomb Pro
Meso
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
January 2011
March 2017
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Boost clock speed
-
1024 MHz
Core clock speed
580 MHz
1024 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,113.6 gflops
784.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
1,550 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
384
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
27.84
24.50
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3/GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth
115.2 GB/s
28.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
-
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DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12.0
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.4
4.5
Shader Model
5.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
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