AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs ATI FireGL V3600

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6950

ATI FireGL V3600

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 and 256MB VRAM FireGL V3600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6950 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

1288 additional rendering cores

ATI FireGL V3600 's Advantages

Lower TDP (73W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950 +1464%

2.253 TFLOPS

FireGL V3600

0.144 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

VS

FireGL V3600

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Jun 2007

Northern Islands

Generation

FireGL

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

22

Compute Units

3

-

1408

Shading Units

120

88

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.400 GPixel/s

70.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.800 GTexel/s

-

2.253 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

144.0 GFLOPS

563.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

200W

TDP

73W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

RV630

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

GPU Variant

RV630 GL

TeraScale 3

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

0.39 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

153 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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