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
RTX A4500 Mobile
CORE STATE
GA104
VRAM
16 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1500 MHz
TDP
140 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Ampere
PROCESS
8 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2022
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
HD 6950
RTX A4500 Mobile
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,408
5,888
+318.2%
Shaders
1,408
5,888
+318.2%
TMUs
88
184
+109.1%
ROPs
32
96
+200.0%
Compute Units
22
—
SM Count
—
46
Clocks
Base Clock
—
930 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1500 MHz
GPU Clock
800 MHz
—
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
5 Gbps effective
2000 MHz
16 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
2 GB
16 GB
VRAM (MB)
2,048
16,384
+700.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256 bit
256 bit
Bandwidth
160.0 GB/s
512.0 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
4 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
25.60 GPixel/s
144.0 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
70.40 GTexel/s
276.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
2.253 TFLOPS
17.66 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
563.2 GFLOPS (1:4)
276.0 GFLOPS (1:64)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
17.66 TFLOPS (1:1)
AI/RT
RT Cores
—
46
Tensor Cores
—
184
Power
TDP
200 W
140 W
TDP (W)
200
140
-30.0%
Suggested PSU
550 W
—
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Architecture
Architecture
TeraScale 3
Ampere
GPU Name
Cayman
GA104
Generation
Northern Islands
(HD 6900)
Ampere-MW
(Ax000)
Process Size
40 nm
8 nm
Transistors
2,640 million
17,400 million
Die Size
389 mm²
392 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Density
6.8M / mm²
44.4M / 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
—
Length
286 mm
11.3 inches
—
Height
126 mm
5 inches
—
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Portable Device Dependent
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
299 USD
—
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Evergreen
Quadro Turing-M
Successor
Southern Islands
Ada-MW