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

RTX A2000

CORE STATE GA106

VRAM 6 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1200 MHz

TDP 70 W

BUS WIDTH 192 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ampere

nm

PROCESS 8 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2021

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

6,210

73,310

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

1,345

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

69,089

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

HD 6950

RTX A2000

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,408

3,328 +136.4%

Shaders

1,408

3,328 +136.4%

TMUs

88

104 +18.2%

ROPs

32

48 +50.0%

Compute Units

22

—

SM Count

—

26

Clocks

Base Clock

—

562 MHz

Boost Clock

—

1200 MHz

GPU Clock

800 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)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

512 KB

3 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

57.60 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

70.40 GTexel/s

124.8 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.253 TFLOPS

7.987 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

563.2 GFLOPS (1:4)

124.8 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

7.987 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

26

Tensor Cores

—

104

Power

TDP

200 W

70 W

TDP (W)

200

70 -65.0%

Suggested PSU

550 W

250 W

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

None

Architecture

Architecture

TeraScale 3

Ampere

GPU Name

Cayman

GA106

Generation

Northern Islands (HD 6900)

Workstation Ampere (Ax000)

Process Size

40 nm

8 nm

Transistors

2,640 million

12,000 million

Die Size

389 mm²

276 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

Samsung

Density

6.8M / mm²

43.5M / 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

Dual-slot

Length

286 mm 11.3 inches

167 mm 6.6 inches

Height

126 mm 5 inches

69 mm 2.7 inches

Outputs

2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

299 USD

449 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Evergreen

Quadro Turing

Successor

Southern Islands

Workstation Ada

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