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 5060

CORE STATE GB206

VRAM 8 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2497 MHz

TDP 145 W

BUS WIDTH 128 bit

ARCHITECTURE Blackwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 5 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2025

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

6,210

120,785

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

116,626

passmark_directx_10

N/A

127

passmark_directx_11

N/A

200

passmark_directx_12

N/A

77

passmark_directx_9

N/A

225

passmark_g2d

N/A

1,154

passmark_g3d

N/A

20,891

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

10,899

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

HD 6950

RTX 5060

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,408

3,840 +172.7%

Shaders

1,408

3,840 +172.7%

TMUs

88

120 +36.4%

ROPs

32

48 +50.0%

Compute Units

22

—

SM Count

—

30

Clocks

Base Clock

—

2280 MHz

Boost Clock

—

2497 MHz

GPU Clock

800 MHz

—

Memory Clock

1250 MHz 5 Gbps effective

1750 MHz 28 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

2 GB

8 GB

VRAM (MB)

2,048

8,192 +300.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR7

Memory Bus

256 bit

128 bit

Bandwidth

160.0 GB/s

448.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

512 KB

32 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

119.9 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

70.40 GTexel/s

299.6 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.253 TFLOPS

19.18 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

563.2 GFLOPS (1:4)

299.6 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

19.18 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

30

Tensor Cores

—

120

Power

TDP

200 W

145 W

TDP (W)

200

145 -27.5%

Suggested PSU

550 W

300 W

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 8-pin

Architecture

Architecture

TeraScale 3

Blackwell 2.0

GPU Name

Cayman

GB206

Generation

Northern Islands (HD 6900)

GeForce 50

Process Size

40 nm

5 nm

Transistors

2,640 million

21,900 million

Die Size

389 mm²

181 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

6.8M / mm²

121.0M / 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

—

12.0

Shader Model

5.0

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

286 mm 11.3 inches

241 mm 9.5 inches

Height

126 mm 5 inches

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1b

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 5.0 x8

Other

Launch Price

299 USD

299 USD

Production

End-of-life

Active

Predecessor

Evergreen

GeForce 40

Successor

Southern Islands

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