GPU Comparison

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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

L40

CORE STATE AD102

VRAM 48 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2490 MHz

TDP 300 W

BUS WIDTH 384 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ada Lovelace

nm

PROCESS 5 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2022

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

6,210

330,683

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

232,627

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

HD 6950

L40

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,408

18,176 +1190.9%

Shaders

1,408

18,176 +1190.9%

TMUs

88

568 +545.5%

ROPs

32

192 +500.0%

Compute Units

22

—

SM Count

—

142

Clocks

Base Clock

—

735 MHz

Boost Clock

—

2490 MHz

GPU Clock

800 MHz

—

Memory Clock

1250 MHz 5 Gbps effective

2250 MHz 18 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

2 GB

48 GB

VRAM (MB)

2,048

49,152 +2300.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

256 bit

384 bit

Bandwidth

160.0 GB/s

864.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

512 KB

96 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

478.1 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

70.40 GTexel/s

1,414.3 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.253 TFLOPS

90.52 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

563.2 GFLOPS (1:4)

1,414.3 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

90.52 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

142

Tensor Cores

—

568

Power

TDP

200 W

300 W

TDP (W)

200

300 +50.0%

Suggested PSU

550 W

700 W

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 16-pin

Architecture

Architecture

TeraScale 3

Ada Lovelace

GPU Name

Cayman

AD102

Generation

Northern Islands (HD 6900)

Server Ada (Lxx)

Process Size

40 nm

5 nm

Transistors

2,640 million

76,300 million

Die Size

389 mm²

609 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

6.8M / mm²

125.3M / 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

—

8.9

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

111 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 4.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

299 USD

—

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Evergreen

Server Ampere

Successor

Southern Islands

Server Hopper

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