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 RX 5600 OEM
CORE STATE
Navi 10
VRAM
6 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1560 MHz
TDP
125 W
BUS WIDTH
192 bit
ARCHITECTURE
RDNA 1.0
PROCESS
7 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2020
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
HD 6950
RX 5600 OEM
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,408
2,048
+45.5%
Shaders
1,408
2,048
+45.5%
TMUs
88
128
+45.5%
ROPs
32
64
+100.0%
Compute Units
22
32
+45.5%
Clocks
Base Clock
—
1130 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1560 MHz
GPU Clock
800 MHz
—
Game Clock
—
1375 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
5 Gbps effective
1500 MHz
12 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
2 GB
6 GB
VRAM (MB)
2,048
6,144
+200.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256 bit
192 bit
Bandwidth
160.0 GB/s
288.0 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
—
L2 Cache
512 KB
3 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
25.60 GPixel/s
99.84 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
70.40 GTexel/s
199.7 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
2.253 TFLOPS
6.390 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
563.2 GFLOPS (1:4)
399.4 GFLOPS (1:16)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
12.78 TFLOPS (2:1)
Power
TDP
200 W
125 W
TDP (W)
200
125
-37.5%
Suggested PSU
550 W
300 W
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 8-pin
Architecture
Architecture
TeraScale 3
RDNA 1.0
GPU Name
Cayman
Navi 10
Generation
Northern Islands
(HD 6900)
Navi
(RX 5000)
Process Size
40 nm
7 nm
Transistors
2,640 million
10,300 million
Die Size
389 mm²
251 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
6.8M / mm²
41.0M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Vulkan
—
1.4
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
Shader Model
5.0
6.8
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Dual-slot
Length
286 mm
11.3 inches
—
Height
126 mm
5 inches
—
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.0b3x 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
Vega
Successor
Southern Islands
Navi II