GPU Comparison

A

AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon HD 6950

CORE STATE Cayman

VRAM 2 GB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 200 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE TeraScale 3

nm

PROCESS 40 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2010

VS

A

AMD

RADEON

Radeon Pro WX 5100

CORE STATE Ellesmere

VRAM 8 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1086 MHz

TDP 75 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE GCN 4.0

nm

PROCESS 14 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2016

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

6,210

24,217

geekbench_metal

N/A

27,977

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

26,909

passmark_directx_10

N/A

29

passmark_directx_11

N/A

36

passmark_directx_12

N/A

26

passmark_directx_9

N/A

88

passmark_g2d

N/A

777

passmark_g3d

N/A

5,496

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

2,053

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

HD 6950

Pro WX 5100

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,408

1,792 +27.3%

Shaders

1,408

1,792 +27.3%

TMUs

88

112 +27.3%

ROPs

32

32 0.0%

Compute Units

22

28 +27.3%

Clocks

Base Clock

—

713 MHz

Boost Clock

—

1086 MHz

GPU Clock

800 MHz

—

Memory Clock

1250 MHz 5 Gbps effective

1250 MHz 5 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

2 GB

8 GB

VRAM (MB)

2,048

8,192 +300.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

256 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

160.0 GB/s

160.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

16 KB (per CU)

L2 Cache

512 KB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

34.75 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

70.40 GTexel/s

121.6 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.253 TFLOPS

3.892 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

563.2 GFLOPS (1:4)

243.3 GFLOPS (1:16)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

3.892 TFLOPS (1:1)

Power

TDP

200 W

75 W

TDP (W)

200

75 -62.5%

Suggested PSU

550 W

250 W

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

None

Architecture

Architecture

TeraScale 3

GCN 4.0

GPU Name

Cayman

Ellesmere

Generation

Northern Islands (HD 6900)

Radeon Pro Polaris (WX x100)

Process Size

40 nm

14 nm

Transistors

2,640 million

5,700 million

Die Size

389 mm²

232 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

GlobalFoundries

Density

6.8M / mm²

24.6M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

12 (12_0)

OpenGL

4.4

4.6

Vulkan

—

1.3

OpenCL

1.2

2.1

Shader Model

5.0

6.7

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Single-slot

Length

286 mm 11.3 inches

173 mm 6.8 inches

Height

126 mm 5 inches

112 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

299 USD

499 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Evergreen

Radeon Pro GCN

Successor

Southern Islands

Radeon Pro Vega

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