GPU Comparison
RADEON
AMD FirePro D500
CORE STATE
Tahiti
VRAM
3 GB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
274 W
BUS WIDTH
384 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 1.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2014
VS
RADEON
Radeon HD 6950
CORE STATE
Cayman
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
200 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
TeraScale 3
PROCESS
40 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2010
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_vulkan
geekbench_opencl
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
FirePro D500
HD 6950
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,536
1,408
-8.3%
Shaders
1,536
1,408
-8.3%
TMUs
96
88
-8.3%
ROPs
32
32
0.0%
Compute Units
24
22
-8.3%
Clocks
GPU Clock
725 MHz
800 MHz
Memory Clock
1270 MHz
5.1 Gbps effective
1250 MHz
5 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
3 GB
2 GB
VRAM (MB)
3,072
2,048
-33.3%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384 bit
256 bit
Bandwidth
243.8 GB/s
160.0 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
768 KB
512 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
23.20 GPixel/s
25.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
69.60 GTexel/s
70.40 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
2.227 TFLOPS
2.253 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
556.8 GFLOPS (1:4)
563.2 GFLOPS (1:4)
Power
TDP
274 W
200 W
TDP (W)
274
200
-27.0%
Suggested PSU
600 W
550 W
Power Connectors
—
2x 6-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TeraScale 3
GPU Name
Tahiti
Cayman
Generation
FirePro Data Center
(Dx00)
Northern Islands
(HD 6900)
Process Size
28 nm
40 nm
Transistors
4,313 million
2,640 million
Die Size
352 mm²
389 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
12.3M / mm²
6.8M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (11_1)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Vulkan
1.2.170
—
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
1.2
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
5.0
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Dual-slot
Length
279 mm
11 inches
286 mm
11.3 inches
Height
—
126 mm
5 inches
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.21x SDI
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
—
299 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
FirePro Terascale
Evergreen
Successor
Radeon Instinct
Southern Islands