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

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce RTX 3090

CORE STATE GA102

VRAM 24 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1695 MHz

TDP 350 W

BUS WIDTH 384 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ampere

nm

PROCESS 8 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2020

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

6,210

191,142

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

5,118

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

174,310

passmark_directx_10

N/A

182

passmark_directx_11

N/A

220

passmark_directx_12

N/A

110

passmark_directx_9

N/A

268

passmark_g2d

N/A

1,063

passmark_g3d

N/A

26,645

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

15,356

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

HD 6950

RTX 3090

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,408

10,496 +645.5%

Shaders

1,408

10,496 +645.5%

TMUs

88

328 +272.7%

ROPs

32

112 +250.0%

Compute Units

22

—

SM Count

—

82

Clocks

Base Clock

—

1395 MHz

Boost Clock

—

1695 MHz

GPU Clock

800 MHz

—

Memory Clock

1250 MHz 5 Gbps effective

1219 MHz 19.5 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

2 GB

24 GB

VRAM (MB)

2,048

24,576 +1100.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6X

Memory Bus

256 bit

384 bit

Bandwidth

160.0 GB/s

936.2 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

512 KB

6 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

189.8 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

70.40 GTexel/s

556.0 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.253 TFLOPS

35.58 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

563.2 GFLOPS (1:4)

556.0 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

35.58 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

82

Tensor Cores

—

328

Power

TDP

200 W

350 W

TDP (W)

200

350 +75.0%

Suggested PSU

550 W

750 W

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 12-pin

Architecture

Architecture

TeraScale 3

Ampere

GPU Name

Cayman

GA102

Generation

Northern Islands (HD 6900)

GeForce 30

Process Size

40 nm

8 nm

Transistors

2,640 million

28,300 million

Die Size

389 mm²

628 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

Samsung

Density

6.8M / mm²

45.1M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenGL

4.4

4.6

Vulkan

—

1.4

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

CUDA

—

8.6

Shader Model

5.0

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Triple-slot

Length

286 mm 11.3 inches

336 mm 13.2 inches

Height

126 mm 5 inches

140 mm 5.5 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

1,499 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Evergreen

GeForce 20

Successor

Southern Islands

GeForce 40

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