AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs AMD FirePro S9000

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6950

AMD FirePro S9000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 and 6GB VRAM FirePro S9000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6950 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 225W)

AMD FirePro S9000 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950

2.253 TFLOPS

FirePro S9000 +43%

3.226 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

VS

FirePro S9000

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Aug 2012

Northern Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

22

Compute Units

28

-

1408

Shading Units

1792

88

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

70.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

100.8 GTexel/s

-

2.253 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.226 TFLOPS

563.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

806.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

225W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

1x DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

Tahiti

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO GL

TeraScale 3

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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