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 590 GME
CORE STATE
Polaris 20
VRAM
8 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1420 MHz
TDP
175 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 4.0
PROCESS
14 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2020
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
HD 6950
RX 590 GME
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,408
2,304
+63.6%
Shaders
1,408
2,304
+63.6%
TMUs
88
144
+63.6%
ROPs
32
32
0.0%
Compute Units
22
36
+63.6%
Clocks
Base Clock
—
1257 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1420 MHz
GPU Clock
800 MHz
—
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
5 Gbps effective
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
2 GB
8 GB
VRAM (MB)
2,048
8,192
+300.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256 bit
256 bit
Bandwidth
160.0 GB/s
256.0 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
2 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
25.60 GPixel/s
45.44 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
70.40 GTexel/s
204.5 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
2.253 TFLOPS
6.543 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
563.2 GFLOPS (1:4)
409.0 GFLOPS (1:16)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
6.543 TFLOPS (1:1)
Power
TDP
200 W
175 W
TDP (W)
200
175
-12.5%
Suggested PSU
550 W
450 W
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 8-pin
Architecture
Architecture
TeraScale 3
GCN 4.0
GPU Name
Cayman
Polaris 20
Generation
Northern Islands
(HD 6900)
Polaris
(RX 500)
Process Size
40 nm
14 nm
Transistors
2,640 million
5,700 million
Die Size
389 mm²
232 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Density
6.8M / mm²
24.6M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Vulkan
—
1.3
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
Shader Model
5.0
6.7
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Dual-slot
Length
286 mm
11.3 inches
241 mm
9.5 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 3.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
299 USD
—
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Evergreen
Arctic Islands
Successor
Southern Islands
Vega