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
Quadro K4000
CORE STATE
GK106
VRAM
3 GB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
80 W
BUS WIDTH
192 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Kepler
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2013
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_metal
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
HD 6950
Quadro K4000
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,408
768
-45.5%
Shaders
1,408
768
-45.5%
TMUs
88
64
-27.3%
ROPs
32
24
-25.0%
Compute Units
22
—
Clocks
GPU Clock
800 MHz
810 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
5 Gbps effective
1404 MHz
5.6 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
2 GB
3 GB
VRAM (MB)
2,048
3,072
+50.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256 bit
192 bit
Bandwidth
160.0 GB/s
134.8 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per SMX)
L2 Cache
512 KB
384 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
25.60 GPixel/s
12.96 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
70.40 GTexel/s
51.84 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
2.253 TFLOPS
1,244.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
563.2 GFLOPS (1:4)
51.84 GFLOPS (1:24)
Power
TDP
200 W
80 W
TDP (W)
200
80
-60.0%
Suggested PSU
550 W
250 W
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Architecture
Architecture
TeraScale 3
Kepler
GPU Name
Cayman
GK106
Generation
Northern Islands
(HD 6900)
Quadro Kepler
(Kx000)
Process Size
40 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2,640 million
2,540 million
Die Size
389 mm²
221 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
6.8M / mm²
11.5M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Vulkan
—
1.2.175
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
CUDA
—
3.0
Shader Model
5.0
6.5 (5.1)
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Single-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 DVI2x DisplayPort 1.2
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
299 USD
1,269 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Evergreen
Quadro Fermi
Successor
Southern Islands
Quadro Maxwell