AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs AMD Radeon Pro 5700 XT

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AMD Radeon HD 6950 AMD Radeon Pro 5700 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 and 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro 5700 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro 5700 XT 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1499MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950

2.253 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 5700 XT +240%

7.675 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

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Radeon Pro 5700 XT

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Aug 2020

Northern Islands

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1243 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1499 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

22

Compute Units

40

1408

Shading Units

2560

88

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

95.94 GPixel/s

70.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

239.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

15.35 TFLOPS

2.253 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.675 TFLOPS

563.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

479.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

Navi 10

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

GPU Variant

Navi 10 XTA

TeraScale 3

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

10.3 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

251 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

130W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.5

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