GMA 950 vs Radeon HD 6290

General info

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in performance ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	Terascale 2 (2009−2015)	Generation 3.5 (2006)
GPU code name	Zacate	Lakeport
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop
Release date	1 July 2011 (12 years ago)	1 May 2005 (18 years ago)
Current price	no data	$132

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	80	no data
Core clock speed	280 MHz	166 MHz
Boost clock speed	400 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	292 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	19 Watt	7 Watt
Texture fill rate	5.200	0.66
Floating-point performance	104 gflops	no data

Size and compatibility

Information on Radeon HD 6290 and GMA 950 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Width	no data	IGP
Supplementary power connectors	None	no data

Memory

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR3	System Shared
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	System Shared
Memory bus width	64 Bit	System Shared
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	System Shared
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB/s	no data
Shared memory	+	no data

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI	No outputs
HDMI	+	no data

API support

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	9.0c
Shader Model	5.0	3.0
OpenGL	4.4	2.0
OpenCL	1.2	N/A
Vulkan	N/A	N/A

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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Advantages and disadvantages

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Recency	1 July 2011	1 May 2005
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	System Shared
Chip lithography	40 nm	90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	19 Watt	7 Watt

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