AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M

GPU Specs Compare

G

AMD Radeon HD 6950

AMD 2010-12
G

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M

NVIDIA 2016-01

Graphics Card

Release Date
Dec 2010
Jan 2016
Generation
Northern Islands
GeForce 900M
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock
1250 MHz
1253 MHz
Base Clock
-
935 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1150 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
2GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
128bit
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s
80.19GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
22
-
Shading Units
1408
1024
TMUs
88
64
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
25.60 GPixel/s
36.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
70.40 GTexel/s
73.60 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.253 TFLOPS
2.355 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
563.2 GFLOPS
73.60 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Cayman
GM206S
GPU Variant
Cayman PRO(215-0807019)
N16E-GR-A1
Architecture
TeraScale 3
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.64 billion
2.94 billion
Die Size
389 mm²
228 mm²

Board Design

TDP
200W
Unknown
Suggested PSU
550 W
-
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Portable Device Dependent
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
None

Graphics Features

DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.3
Shader Model
5.0
6.7
CUDA
-
5.2

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