AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs ATI Mobility Radeon X2300 HD

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6950 and ATI Mobility Radeon X2300 HD videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6950

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • 36.7x more texture fill rate: 70.4 GTexel / s vs 1.916 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 80 nm
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 256 MB
  • Around 65% higher memory clock speed: 1250 MHz vs 756 MHz
  • 53.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2612 vs 49
  • Around 80% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 438 vs 244
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 14 December 2010 vs 1 March 2007
Texture fill rate 70.4 GTexel / s vs 1.916 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 80 nm
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed 1250 MHz vs 756 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 2612 vs 49
PassMark - G2D Mark 438 vs 244

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6950
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon X2300 HD

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
2612
49
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
438
244
Name AMD Radeon HD 6950 ATI Mobility Radeon X2300 HD
PassMark - G3D Mark 2612 49
PassMark - G2D Mark 438 244
Geekbench - OpenCL 6114
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 16.999
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 899.056
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.659
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 49.698
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 251.203
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 3652
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2523
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 11657
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 3652
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2523
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 11657
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 6950 ATI Mobility Radeon X2300 HD

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 3 R500
Code name Cayman M71
Design AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
Launch date 14 December 2010 1 March 2007
Launch price (MSRP) $299
Place in performance rating 707 709
Price now $89.99
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 45.34

Technical info

Boost clock speed 800 MHz
Floating-point performance 2,252.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 80 nm
Pipelines 1408
Texture fill rate 70.4 GTexel / s 1.916 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 500 Watt
Transistor count 2,640 million 107 million
Core clock speed 479 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort No outputs
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 267 mm
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 11 9.0c
OpenGL 4.4 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 256 MB
Memory bus width 256 Bit 32 Bit
Memory clock speed 1250 MHz 756 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR2
Memory bandwidth 3.024 GB / s

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire