AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6950

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6950 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 285W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock2610MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

6272 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950

2.253 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB +1679%

40.09 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

VS

GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Unknown

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2310 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2610 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1313 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

504.2GB/s

Render Config

22

Compute Units

-

SM Count

60

1408

Shading Units

7680

88

TMUs

240

32

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

240

-

RT Cores

60

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

48 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

208.8 GPixel/s

70.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

626.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

40.09 TFLOPS

2.253 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

40.09 TFLOPS

563.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

626.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

285W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 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 16-pin

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

AD104

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

GPU Variant

AD104-400-A1

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

4 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

295 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

6.6

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