NVIDIA P106 090 vs AMD Radeon HD 6950

VS

NVIDIA P106 090

AMD Radeon HD 6950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM P106 090 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA P106 090 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1531MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (75W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon HD 6950 's Advantages

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

P106 090 +4%

2.352 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

2.253 TFLOPS

P106 090

VS

Radeon HD 6950

Graphics Card

Jul 2017

Release Date

Dec 2010

Mining GPUs

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1354 MHz

Base Clock

-

1531 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

22

6

SM Count

-

768

Shading Units

1408

48

TMUs

88

48

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

73.49 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

73.49 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

70.40 GTexel/s

36.74 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.352 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.253 TFLOPS

73.49 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

563.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

200W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

No outputs

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Cayman

GP106-090-A1

GPU Variant

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

200 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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