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

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

RTX 6000D

CORE STATE GB202

VRAM 84 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2430 MHz

TDP 600 W

BUS WIDTH 448 bit

ARCHITECTURE Blackwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 5 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2025

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

6,210

388,405

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

3,522

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

HD 6950

RTX 6000D

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,408

19,968 +1318.2%

Shaders

1,408

19,968 +1318.2%

TMUs

88

624 +609.1%

ROPs

32

192 +500.0%

Compute Units

22

—

SM Count

—

156

Clocks

Base Clock

—

1590 MHz

Boost Clock

—

2430 MHz

GPU Clock

800 MHz

—

Memory Clock

1250 MHz 5 Gbps effective

1750 MHz 28 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

2 GB

84 GB

VRAM (MB)

2,048

86,016 +4100.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR7

Memory Bus

256 bit

448 bit

Bandwidth

160.0 GB/s

1.57 TB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

512 KB

128 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

466.6 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

70.40 GTexel/s

1,516.3 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.253 TFLOPS

97.04 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

563.2 GFLOPS (1:4)

1.516 TFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

97.04 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

156

Tensor Cores

—

624

Power

TDP

200 W

600 W

TDP (W)

200

600 +200.0%

Suggested PSU

550 W

1000 W

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 16-pin

Architecture

Architecture

TeraScale 3

Blackwell 2.0

GPU Name

Cayman

GB202

Generation

Northern Islands (HD 6900)

Blackwell PRO W (x000)

Process Size

40 nm

5 nm

Transistors

2,640 million

92,200 million

Die Size

389 mm²

750 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

6.8M / mm²

122.9M / 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

—

12.0

Shader Model

5.0

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

286 mm 11.3 inches

304 mm 12 inches

Height

126 mm 5 inches

137 mm 5.4 inches

Outputs

2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

4x DisplayPort 2.1b

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 5.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

299 USD

8,565 USD

Production

End-of-life

Active

Predecessor

Evergreen

Workstation Ada

Successor

Southern Islands

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