Radeon HD 6930 vs GeForce GTX 960A

Place in the ranking	492	536
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	no data	2.01
Power efficiency	8.09	2.72
Architecture	Maxwell (2014−2017)	TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
GPU code name	GM107	Cayman
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop
Release date	13 March 2015 (9 years ago)	1 December 2011 (12 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$180

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	640	1280
Core clock speed	1029 MHz	750 MHz
Boost clock speed	1085 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	1,870 million	2,640 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	75 Watt	186 Watt
Texture fill rate	43.40	60.00
Floating-point processing power	1.389 TFLOPS	1.92 TFLOPS
ROPs	16	32
TMUs	40	80

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	no data	220 mm
Width	no data	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	2x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

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	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	1 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1253 MHz	1200 MHz
Memory bandwidth	80.19 GB/s	153.6 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

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	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
HDMI	-	+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (11_0)	11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model	5.1	5.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
OpenCL	1.2	1.2
Vulkan	1.1.126	N/A
CUDA	5.0	-

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	8.70	7.27
Recency	13 March 2015	1 December 2011
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	1 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	75 Watt	186 Watt

GTX 960A has a 19.7% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 3 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 42.9% more advanced lithography process, and 148% lower power consumption.

The GeForce GTX 960A is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon HD 6930 in performance tests.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 960A is a notebook card while Radeon HD 6930 is a desktop one.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.