GPU Comparison
RADEON
AMD Radeon HD 6950
CORE STATE
Cayman
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
200 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
TeraScale 3
PROCESS
40 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2010
VS
GEFORCE
PG506-232
CORE STATE
GA100
VRAM
24 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1440 MHz
TDP
165 W
BUS WIDTH
3072 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Ampere
PROCESS
7 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2021
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
HD 6950
PG506-232
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,408
3,584
+154.5%
Shaders
1,408
3,584
+154.5%
TMUs
88
224
+154.5%
ROPs
32
96
+200.0%
Compute Units
22
—
SM Count
—
56
Clocks
Base Clock
—
930 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1440 MHz
GPU Clock
800 MHz
—
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
5 Gbps effective
1215 MHz
2.4 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
2 GB
24 GB
VRAM (MB)
2,048
24,576
+1100.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM2
Memory Bus
256 bit
3072 bit
Bandwidth
160.0 GB/s
933.1 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
192 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
24 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
25.60 GPixel/s
138.2 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
70.40 GTexel/s
322.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
2.253 TFLOPS
10.32 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
563.2 GFLOPS (1:4)
5.161 TFLOPS (1:2)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
10.32 TFLOPS (1:1)
AI/RT
Tensor Cores
—
224
Power
TDP
200 W
165 W
TDP (W)
200
165
-17.5%
Suggested PSU
550 W
450 W
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
8-pin EPS
Architecture
Architecture
TeraScale 3
Ampere
GPU Name
Cayman
GA100
Generation
Northern Islands
(HD 6900)
Server Ampere
(Axx)
Process Size
40 nm
7 nm
Transistors
2,640 million
54,200 million
Die Size
389 mm²
826 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
6.8M / mm²
65.6M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
—
OpenGL
4.4
—
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
CUDA
—
8.0
Shader Model
5.0
—
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Dual-slot
Length
286 mm
11.3 inches
267 mm
10.5 inches
Height
126 mm
5 inches
112 mm
4.4 inches
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
299 USD
—
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Evergreen
Tesla Turing
Successor
Southern Islands
Server Ada