AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs ATI Radeon HD 4580

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6950

ATI Radeon HD 4580

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4580 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 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 22.18GB/s)

1288 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 4580 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Lower TDP (65W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950 +1079%

2.253 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4580

0.191 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

VS

Radeon HD 4580

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Nov 2011

Northern Islands

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

693 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

22.18GB/s

Render Config

22

Compute Units

3

-

1408

Shading Units

120

88

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.184 GPixel/s

70.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.368 GTexel/s

-

2.253 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

191.0 GFLOPS

563.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

200W

TDP

65W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

RV635

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

GPU Variant

RV635 PRO (215-0682008)

TeraScale 3

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

0.378 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

135 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

4.1

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