ATI FirePro V9800 vs AMD Radeon HD 6950

VS

ATI FirePro V9800

AMD Radeon HD 6950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro V9800 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI FirePro V9800 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

192 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6950 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 147.2GB/s)

Lower TDP (200W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro V9800 +20%

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

2.253 TFLOPS

FirePro V9800

VS

Radeon HD 6950

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Dec 2010

FirePro

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1150 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

147.2GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

22

-

1600

Shading Units

1408

80

TMUs

88

32

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

70.40 GTexel/s

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.253 TFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

563.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

200W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Cayman

Cypress XT GL

GPU Variant

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.0

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