NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs AMD Radeon HD 6950

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

AMD Radeon HD 6950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1455MHz

Lower TDP (75W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon HD 6950 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 112.1GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1050

1.862 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950 +20%

2.253 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1050

VS

Radeon HD 6950

Graphics Card

Oct 2016

Release Date

Dec 2010

GeForce 10

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1354 MHz

Base Clock

-

1455 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1752 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.1GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

22

5

SM Count

-

640

Shading Units

1408

40

TMUs

88

32

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

46.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

58.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

70.40 GTexel/s

29.10 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1.862 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.253 TFLOPS

58.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

563.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

200W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP107

GPU Name

Cayman

GP107-300-A1

GPU Variant

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale 3

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3.3 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

132 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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