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
RADEON
Radeon Pro 5600M
CORE STATE
Navi 12
VRAM
8 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1144 MHz
TDP
50 W
BUS WIDTH
2048 bit
ARCHITECTURE
RDNA 1.0
PROCESS
7 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2020
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_metal
geekbench_vulkan
passmark_directx_10
passmark_directx_11
passmark_directx_12
passmark_directx_9
passmark_g2d
passmark_g3d
passmark_gpu_compute
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
HD 6950
Pro 5600M
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,408
2,560
+81.8%
Shaders
1,408
2,560
+81.8%
TMUs
88
160
+81.8%
ROPs
32
64
+100.0%
Compute Units
22
40
+81.8%
Clocks
Base Clock
—
822 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1144 MHz
GPU Clock
800 MHz
—
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
5 Gbps effective
770 MHz
1540 Mbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
2 GB
8 GB
VRAM (MB)
2,048
8,192
+300.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM2
Memory Bus
256 bit
2048 bit
Bandwidth
160.0 GB/s
394.2 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
—
L2 Cache
512 KB
4 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
25.60 GPixel/s
73.22 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
70.40 GTexel/s
183.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
2.253 TFLOPS
5.857 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
563.2 GFLOPS (1:4)
366.1 GFLOPS (1:16)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
11.71 TFLOPS (2:1)
Power
TDP
200 W
50 W
TDP (W)
200
50
-75.0%
Suggested PSU
550 W
—
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Architecture
Architecture
TeraScale 3
RDNA 1.0
GPU Name
Cayman
Navi 12
Generation
Northern Islands
(HD 6900)
Radeon Pro Mac
(Navi Mobile)
Process Size
40 nm
7 nm
Transistors
2,640 million
—
Die Size
389 mm²
—
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
6.8M / mm²
—
API Support
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Vulkan
—
1.3
OpenCL
1.2
2.2
Shader Model
5.0
6.0
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
IGP
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
—
Successor
Southern Islands
—