AMD Radeon HD 6930 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

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AMD Radeon HD 6930 AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6930 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6930 's Advantages

Lower TDP (186W vs 210W)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1471MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6930

1.92 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 56 +448%

10.54 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6930

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Radeon RX Vega 56

Graphics Card

Dec 2011

Release Date

Aug 2017

Northern Islands

Generation

Vega

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1156 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1471 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

409.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

56

1280

Shading Units

3584

80

TMUs

224

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

24.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

94.14 GPixel/s

60.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

329.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

21.09 TFLOPS

1.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.54 TFLOPS

480.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

659.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

Vega 10

Cayman CE (215-0807105)

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

TeraScale 3

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Board Design

186W

TDP

210W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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