AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Dec 2010
Mar 2015
Generation
Northern Islands
GeForce 900M
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
900 MHz
Base Clock
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993 MHz
Boost Clock
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1124 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
DDR3
Memory Bus
256bit
128bit
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s
28.80GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
22
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Shading Units
1408
640
TMUs
88
40
ROPs
32
16
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
64 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
25.60 GPixel/s
17.98 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
70.40 GTexel/s
44.96 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.253 TFLOPS
1439 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
563.2 GFLOPS
44.96 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Cayman
GM107
GPU Variant
Cayman PRO(215-0807019)
N16P-GT
Architecture
TeraScale 3
Maxwell
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.64 billion
1.87 billion
Die Size
389 mm²
148 mm²
Board Design
TDP
200W
75W
Suggested PSU
550 W
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Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
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Graphics Features
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.3
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
CUDA
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5.0
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.