AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs ATI FirePro V9800

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6950

ATI FirePro V9800

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 and 4GB VRAM FirePro V9800 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 147.2GB/s)

Lower TDP (200W vs 250W)

ATI FirePro V9800 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

192 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950

2.253 TFLOPS

FirePro V9800 +20%

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

VS

FirePro V9800

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Sep 2010

Northern Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1150 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

147.2GB/s

Render Config

22

Compute Units

20

-

1408

Shading Units

1600

88

TMUs

80

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

27.20 GPixel/s

70.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

2.253 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

563.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

250W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

Cypress

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

GPU Variant

Cypress XT 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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