AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6950

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1630 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 96.00GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1785MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950 +23%

2.253 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1630

1.828 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

VS

GeForce GTX 1630

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Jun 2022

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 16

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1740 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1785 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

22

Compute Units

-

SM Count

8

1408

Shading Units

512

88

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.56 GPixel/s

70.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

57.12 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

3.656 TFLOPS

2.253 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.828 TFLOPS

563.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

57.12 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

75W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

TU117

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

GPU Variant

TU117-150-KA-A1

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

12 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

4.7 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

200 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

7.5

5.0

Shader Model

6.7

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