AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs ATI FirePro V7800

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6950

ATI FirePro V7800

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 and 2GB VRAM FirePro V7800 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6950 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

ATI FirePro V7800 's Advantages

32 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950 +11%

2.253 TFLOPS

FirePro V7800

2.016 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

VS

FirePro V7800

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Apr 2010

Northern Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

22

Compute Units

18

-

1408

Shading Units

1440

88

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

22.40 GPixel/s

70.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

50.40 GTexel/s

-

2.253 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.016 TFLOPS

563.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

403.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

150W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.1

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

Cypress

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

GPU Variant

Cypress PRO GL

TeraScale 3

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

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

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.0

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