AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 OEM

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AMD Radeon HD 6950 NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 and 512MB VRAM GeForce GTS 450 OEM 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 57.73GB/s)

1264 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (106W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950 +399%

2.253 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 450 OEM

0.451 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

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GeForce GTS 450 OEM

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Sep 2010

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

902 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.73GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

3

22

Compute Units

-

1408

Shading Units

144

88

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.698 GPixel/s

70.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

18.79 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.253 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

451.0 GFLOPS

563.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

37.58 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

GF106

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

1.17 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

238 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

106W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1x VGA

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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