Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) and Radeon HD 6950M - video card comparison
Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)
Radeon HD 6950M
Architecture
Vega (2017−2021)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Vega Raven Ridge
Blackcomb Pro
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
October 2017
January 2011
Interface
-
MXM-B (3.0)
Boost clock speed
1200 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
580 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
1,113.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
-
1,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
960
Power consumption (TDP)
15 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
-
27.84
Memory type
-
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
-
2 GB
Memory bus width
-
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
115.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
-
No outputs
DirectX
12_1
11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL
-
1.2
OpenGL
-
4.4
Shader Model
-
5.0
Vulkan
-
N/A