AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs ATI FirePro 2270 PCIe x1

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AMD Radeon HD 6950 ATI FirePro 2270 PCIe x1

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 and 512MB VRAM FirePro 2270 PCIe x1 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6950 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)

1328 additional rendering cores

ATI FirePro 2270 PCIe x1 's Advantages

Lower TDP (15W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950 +2246%

2.253 TFLOPS

FirePro 2270 PCIe x1

0.096 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

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FirePro 2270 PCIe x1

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Jan 2011

Northern Islands

Generation

FirePro Multi-View

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x1

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

9.600GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

22

Compute Units

1

1408

Shading Units

80

88

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.400 GPixel/s

70.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.800 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.253 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

96.00 GFLOPS

563.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

Cedar

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

GPU Variant

Cedar WS

TeraScale 3

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

59 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

15W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DMS-59

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.0

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