AMD Radeon HD 6950

This is a GPU manufactured with TSMC 40nm process, based on AMD TeraScale 3 architecture and released on Dec 2010. It features 2.64 billion transistors, 22 Rendering cores and 2GB GDDR5 memory, with 512KB L2 cache, theoretical performance of 2.253TFLOPS, with total power consumption of 200W.

Graphics Card

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Release Date

Dec 2010

Generation

Northern Islands

Type

Desktop

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

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Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

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Memory Size

2GB

Memory Type

GDDR5

Memory Bus

256bit

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

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Compute Units

22

Shading Units

1408

TMUs

88

ROPs

32

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

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Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

70.40 GTexel/s

FP32 (float)

2.253 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

563.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

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GPU Name

Cayman

GPU Variant

Cayman PRO

(215-0807019)

Architecture

TeraScale 3

Foundry

TSMC

Process Size

40 nm

Transistors

2.64 billion

Die Size

389 mm²

Board Design

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TDP

200W

Suggested PSU

550 W

Outputs

2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

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DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

OpenGL

4.4

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

Shader Model

5.0

Rankings

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FP32 (float)

NVIDIA GeForce MX450 30.5W 8Gbps 2 GB GDDR5

2.285 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon HD 6950 2 GB GDDR5

2.253 TFLOPS

AMD FirePro D500 3 GB GDDR5

2.227 TFLOPS

NVIDIA GRID M6 8Q 8 GB GDDR5

2.218 TFLOPS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile 3 GB 3 GB GDDR5

2.215 TFLOPS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition 2 GB GDDR5

2.209 TFLOPS

NVIDIA Tesla M4 4 GB GDDR5

2.195 TFLOPS

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