AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs NVIDIA GeForce 310 OEM

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AMD Radeon HD 6950 NVIDIA GeForce 310 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 310 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6950 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 1 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 5.328GB/s)

1392 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 310 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (31W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950 +4906%

2.253 TFLOPS

GeForce 310 OEM

0.045 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

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GeForce 310 OEM

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Nov 2009

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 300

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

333 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

5.328GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

22

Compute Units

-

1408

Shading Units

16

88

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.356 GPixel/s

70.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.712 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.253 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

44.86 GFLOPS

563.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

GT218

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

GPU Variant

GT218-300-A2

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

0.26 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

57 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

31W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1x VGA

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

5.0

Shader Model

4.1

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