GPU Comparison

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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

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

CORE STATE GA102

VRAM 24 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1860 MHz

TDP 450 W

BUS WIDTH 384 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ampere

nm

PROCESS 8 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2022

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

6,210

205,978

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

5,741

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

184,015

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

HD 6950

RTX 3090 Ti

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,408

10,752 +663.6%

Shaders

1,408

10,752 +663.6%

TMUs

88

336 +281.8%

ROPs

32

112 +250.0%

Compute Units

22

—

SM Count

—

84

Clocks

Base Clock

—

1560 MHz

Boost Clock

—

1860 MHz

GPU Clock

800 MHz

—

Memory Clock

1250 MHz 5 Gbps effective

1313 MHz 21 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

2 GB

24 GB

VRAM (MB)

2,048

24,576 +1100.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6X

Memory Bus

256 bit

384 bit

Bandwidth

160.0 GB/s

1.01 TB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

512 KB

6 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

208.3 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

70.40 GTexel/s

625.0 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.253 TFLOPS

40.00 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

563.2 GFLOPS (1:4)

625.0 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

40.00 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

84

Tensor Cores

—

336

Power

TDP

200 W

450 W

TDP (W)

200

450 +125.0%

Suggested PSU

550 W

850 W

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 16-pin

Architecture

Architecture

TeraScale 3

Ampere

GPU Name

Cayman

GA102

Generation

Northern Islands (HD 6900)

GeForce 30

Process Size

40 nm

8 nm

Transistors

2,640 million

28,300 million

Die Size

389 mm²

628 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

Samsung

Density

6.8M / mm²

45.1M / 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

Triple-slot

Length

286 mm 11.3 inches

336 mm 13.2 inches

Height

126 mm 5 inches

140 mm 5.5 inches

Outputs

2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

299 USD

1,999 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Evergreen

GeForce 20

Successor

Southern Islands

GeForce 40

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