AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs NVIDIA NVS 315

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6950

NVIDIA NVS 315

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 and 1024MB VRAM NVS 315 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6950 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 14.00GB/s)

1360 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA NVS 315 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

Lower TDP (19W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950 +2153%

2.253 TFLOPS

NVS 315

0.1 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

VS

NVS 315

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Mar 2013

Northern Islands

Generation

NVS

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

875 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

14.00GB/s

Render Config

22

Compute Units

-

SM Count

1

1408

Shading Units

48

88

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.046 GPixel/s

70.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.184 GTexel/s

-

2.253 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

100.4 GFLOPS

563.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

8.368 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

19W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DMS-59

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

GF119

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

GPU Variant

GF119-825-A1

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

79 mm²

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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