AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs AMD Radeon HD 7720 OEM

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AMD Radeon HD 6950 AMD Radeon HD 7720 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 7720 OEM 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 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

608 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7720 OEM 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

Lower TDP (150W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950 +67%

2.253 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7720 OEM

1.344 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

VS

Radeon HD 7720 OEM

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Mar 2013

Northern Islands

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

22

Compute Units

10

1408

Shading Units

800

88

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

26.88 GPixel/s

70.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.253 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1344 GFLOPS

563.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

Barts

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

GPU Variant

Barts LE (215-0798002)

TeraScale 3

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

255 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

150W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.0

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