AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6950

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 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 48.06GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1468MHz

Lower TDP (30W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950 +99%

2.253 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1030

1.127 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

VS

GeForce GT 1030

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

May 2017

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1228 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1468 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

48.06GB/s

Render Config

22

Compute Units

-

SM Count

3

1408

Shading Units

384

88

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.49 GPixel/s

70.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

35.23 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

17.62 GFLOPS

2.253 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1127 GFLOPS

563.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

35.23 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

30W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

GP108

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

GPU Variant

GP108-300-A1

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

1.8 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

74 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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