AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 GK107

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6950

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 GK107

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 GK107 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 80.00GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 GK107 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 9 months late

Lower TDP (65W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950 +177%

2.253 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1030 GK107

0.812 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

VS

GeForce GT 1030 GK107

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Sep 2018

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

80.00GB/s

Render Config

22

Compute Units

-

1408

Shading Units

384

88

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.464 GPixel/s

70.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.86 GTexel/s

-

2.253 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

812.5 GFLOPS

563.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

33.86 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

65W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

GK107

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

1.27 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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