AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs ATI FirePro V7900 SDI

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AMD Radeon HD 6950 ATI FirePro V7900 SDI

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 and 2GB VRAM FirePro V7900 SDI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6950 's Advantages

128 additional rendering cores

ATI FirePro V7900 SDI 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950 +21%

2.253 TFLOPS

FirePro V7900 SDI

1.856 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

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FirePro V7900 SDI

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

May 2011

Northern Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

22

Compute Units

20

1408

Shading Units

1280

88

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

70.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

58.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.253 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.856 TFLOPS

563.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

464.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

Cayman

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

GPU Variant

Cayman PRO GL

TeraScale 3

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

150W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

4x SDI

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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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