AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 AD106

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AMD Radeon HD 6950

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 AD106

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4060 AD106 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 AD106 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock2460MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (272.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (115W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950

2.253 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4060 AD106 +570%

15.11 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

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GeForce RTX 4060 AD106

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Apr 2024

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1830 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2460 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

2125 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

272.0GB/s

Render Config

22

Compute Units

-

SM Count

24

1408

Shading Units

3072

88

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

96

-

RT Cores

24

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

24 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

118.1 GPixel/s

70.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

236.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

15.11 TFLOPS

2.253 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

15.11 TFLOPS

563.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

236.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

115W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

AD106

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

GPU Variant

AD106-155-A1

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

5 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

22.9 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

188 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.9

5.0

Shader Model

6.7

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