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 RX 6700 XT

CORE STATE Navi 22

VRAM 12 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2581 MHz

TDP 230 W

BUS WIDTH 192 bit

ARCHITECTURE RDNA 2.0

nm

PROCESS 7 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2021

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

6,210

100,730

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

2,435

geekbench_metal

N/A

129,041

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

108,032

passmark_directx_10

N/A

124

passmark_directx_11

N/A

173

passmark_directx_12

N/A

77

passmark_directx_9

N/A

242

passmark_g2d

N/A

951

passmark_g3d

N/A

19,786

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

9,336

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

HD 6950

RX 6700 XT

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,408

2,560 +81.8%

Shaders

1,408

2,560 +81.8%

TMUs

88

160 +81.8%

ROPs

32

64 +100.0%

Compute Units

22

40 +81.8%

Clocks

Base Clock

—

2321 MHz

Boost Clock

—

2581 MHz

GPU Clock

800 MHz

—

Game Clock

—

2424 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz 5 Gbps effective

2000 MHz 16 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

2 GB

12 GB

VRAM (MB)

2,048

12,288 +500.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

256 bit

192 bit

Bandwidth

160.0 GB/s

384.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

128 KB per Array

L2 Cache

512 KB

3 MB

L3 Cache

—

96 MB

L0 Cache

—

32 KB per WGP

Performance

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

165.2 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

70.40 GTexel/s

413.0 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.253 TFLOPS

13.21 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

563.2 GFLOPS (1:4)

825.9 GFLOPS (1:16)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

26.43 TFLOPS (2:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

40

Power

TDP

200 W

230 W

TDP (W)

200

230 +15.0%

Suggested PSU

550 W

550 W

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Architecture

Architecture

TeraScale 3

RDNA 2.0

GPU Name

Cayman

Navi 22

Generation

Northern Islands (HD 6900)

Navi II (RX 6000)

Process Size

40 nm

7 nm

Transistors

2,640 million

17,200 million

Die Size

389 mm²

335 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

6.8M / mm²

51.3M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenGL

4.4

4.6

Vulkan

—

1.4

OpenCL

1.2

2.1

Shader Model

5.0

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

286 mm 11.3 inches

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

126 mm 5 inches

110 mm 4.3 inches

Outputs

2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

299 USD

479 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Evergreen

Navi

Successor

Southern Islands

Navi III

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