GPU Comparison

A

AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon HD 6950

CORE STATE Cayman

VRAM 2 GB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 200 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE TeraScale 3

nm

PROCESS 40 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2010

VS

A

AMD

RADEON

Radeon RX 6500 XT

CORE STATE Navi 24

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2815 MHz

TDP 107 W

BUS WIDTH 64 bit

ARCHITECTURE RDNA 2.0

nm

PROCESS 6 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2022

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

6,210

48,915

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

235

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

54,648

passmark_directx_10

N/A

60

passmark_directx_11

N/A

90

passmark_directx_12

N/A

38

passmark_directx_9

N/A

108

passmark_g2d

N/A

815

passmark_g3d

N/A

9,608

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

4,456

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

HD 6950

RX 6500 XT

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,408

1,024 -27.3%

Shaders

1,408

1,024 -27.3%

TMUs

88

64 -27.3%

ROPs

32

32 0.0%

Compute Units

22

16 -27.3%

Clocks

Base Clock

—

2310 MHz

Boost Clock

—

2815 MHz

GPU Clock

800 MHz

—

Game Clock

—

2610 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz 5 Gbps effective

2248 MHz 18 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

2 GB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

2,048

4,096 +100.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

256 bit

64 bit

Bandwidth

160.0 GB/s

143.9 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

128 KB per Array

L2 Cache

512 KB

1024 KB

L3 Cache

—

16 MB

L0 Cache

—

32 KB per WGP

Performance

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

90.08 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

70.40 GTexel/s

180.2 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.253 TFLOPS

5.765 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

563.2 GFLOPS (1:4)

360.3 GFLOPS (1:16)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

11.53 TFLOPS (2:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

16

Power

TDP

200 W

107 W

TDP (W)

200

107 -46.5%

Suggested PSU

550 W

300 W

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

TeraScale 3

RDNA 2.0

GPU Name

Cayman

Navi 24

Generation

Northern Islands (HD 6900)

Navi II (RX 6000)

Process Size

40 nm

6 nm

Transistors

2,640 million

5,400 million

Die Size

389 mm²

107 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

6.8M / mm²

50.5M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenGL

4.4

4.6

Vulkan

—

1.4

OpenCL

1.2

2.2

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 2.11x DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x4

Other

Launch Price

299 USD

199 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Evergreen

Navi

Successor

Southern Islands

Navi III

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