AMD Radeon HD 6950
VS
NVIDIA GeForce 945A
AMD Radeon HD 6950
VS
NVIDIA GeForce 945A

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Radeon HD 6950 and NVIDIA GeForce 945A. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

404
Place in performance rating
489
12.11
Value for money (0-100)
no data
TeraScale 3
Architecture
Maxwell
Cayman
Code name
GM108
Desktop
Type
Desktop
14 December 2010 (10 years ago)
Release date
13 March 2015 (6 years ago)
$299
Launch price (MSRP)
no data
$244 (0.8x MSRP)
Price now
no data
reference
Design
no data
2.59
Value for money
no data
Cayman
GPU code name
GM108
Desktop
Market segment
Desktop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Radeon HD 6950 and NVIDIA GeForce 945A based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

1408
Pipelines
384
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Core clock speed
1072 MHz
800 MHz
Boost Clock
1189 MHz
2,640 million
Transistor count
no data
40 nm
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
500 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
33 Watt
70.40
Texture fill rate
28.54
2,252.8 gflops
Floating-point performance
903.2 gflops
1408
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
800 MHz
Boost clock speed
1189 MHz
2,640 million
Number of transistors
no data
500 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
33 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Radeon HD 6950 and NVIDIA GeForce 945A.

PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
267 mm
Length
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2x 6-pin
Supplementary power connectors
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PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus support
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Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics AMD Radeon HD 6950 and NVIDIA GeForce 945A can be seen in this section.

GDDR5
Memory type
GDDR5
2 GB
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
256 Bit
Memory bus width
64 Bit
1250 MHz
Memory clock speed
5012 MHz
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Memory bandwidth
40.1 GB/s

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Radeon HD 6950 and NVIDIA GeForce 945A, the size and number of monitors.

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Display Connectors
No outputs
1
Eyefinity
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+
HDMI
no data
-
DisplayPort support
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Technologies

The difference between AMD Radeon HD 6950 and NVIDIA GeForce 945A is the additional functionality.

-
AppAcceleration
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1
CrossFire
no data
-
HD3D
no data
-
PowerTune
no data
-
TrueAudio
no data
-
ZeroCore
no data
-
Enduro
no data

API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Radeon HD 6950 and NVIDIA GeForce 945A. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

DirectX® 11
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
5.0
Shader Model
no data
1.2
OpenCL
no data
-
Mantle
no data

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Radeon HD 6950 and NVIDIA GeForce 945A graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD Radeon HD 6950 or NVIDIA GeForce 945A good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Radeon HD 6950
NVIDIA GeForce 945A
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Radeon HD 6950
NVIDIA GeForce 945A
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Radeon HD 6950
NVIDIA GeForce 945A
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Radeon HD 6950
NVIDIA GeForce 945A
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Radeon HD 6950
NVIDIA GeForce 945A
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of AMD Radeon HD 6950

4.27% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (1408 vs 384)

More maximum RAM amount (2 GB vs 1 GB)

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce 945A

Finer manufacturing process technology (28 nm vs 40 nm)

Less power consumption (33 Watt vs 500 Watt)

So, AMD Radeon HD 6950 or NVIDIA GeForce 945A?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon HD 6950 .

AMD Radeon HD 6950 versus NVIDIA GeForce 945A performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

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