Radeon HD 6950M and Radeon HD 7690M - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6950M
Radeon HD 7690M
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Blackcomb Pro
Thames XT / XTX
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
January 2011
June 2011
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
MXM-A (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Boost clock speed
-
725 MHz
Core clock speed
580 MHz
600 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,113.6 gflops
696.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
716 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
480
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
20 Watt
Texture fill rate
27.84
17.40
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5/DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
3600/1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
115.2 GB/s
28.8 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