AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs AMD Radeon Pro V520

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6950

AMD Radeon Pro V520

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro V520 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 225W)

AMD Radeon Pro V520 's Advantages

Released 10 years late

Boost Clock1600MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950

2.253 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro V520 +227%

7.373 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

VS

Radeon Pro V520

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Dec 2020

Northern Islands

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1600 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

22

Compute Units

36

-

1408

Shading Units

2304

88

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

64

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

102.4 GPixel/s

70.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

230.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

14.75 TFLOPS

2.253 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.373 TFLOPS

563.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

460.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

225W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

Navi 12

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

GPU Variant

Navi 12

TeraScale 3

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

Unknown

389 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.5

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