Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) and Radeon HD 6950 - video card comparison
Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000)
Radeon HD 6950
Architecture
Vega (2017−2021)
TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
GPU code name
Vega
Cayman
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2020
December 2010
Bus support
-
PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface
-
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
2x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
2100 MHz
800 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
2,252.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
7 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
-
2,640 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
1408
Power consumption (TDP)
15 Watt
500 Watt
Texture fill rate
-
70.40
Memory type
-
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
-
2 GB
Memory bus width
-
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
1250 MHz
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
-
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Eyefinity
-
1
HDMI
-
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
12_1
DirectX® 11
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
-
1.2
OpenGL
-
4.4
Shader Model
-
5.0
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
-
1
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-