NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 12 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 6950

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 12 GB AMD Radeon HD 6950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 12 GB 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 1080 Ti 12 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock1670MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (528.4GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6950 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 12 GB +374%

10.69 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

2.253 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 12 GB

VS

Radeon HD 6950

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Dec 2010

GeForce 10

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1557 MHz

Base Clock

-

1670 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1376 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

528.4GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

25

SM Count

-

Compute Units

22

3200

Shading Units

1408

200

TMUs

88

80

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

0 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

133.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

334.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

70.40 GTexel/s

167.0 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.69 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.253 TFLOPS

334.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

563.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP102

GPU Name

Cayman

-

GPU Variant

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

40 nm

11.8 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

471 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

200W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

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

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.0

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