AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs AMD Radeon Pro Vega II

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6950

AMD Radeon Pro Vega II

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 and 32GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega II 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 475W)

AMD Radeon Pro Vega II 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1720MHz

More VRAM (32GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (825.3GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

2688 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950

2.253 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Vega II +525%

14.09 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

VS

Radeon Pro Vega II

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Jun 2019

Northern Islands

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

Apple MPX

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1574 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1720 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

806 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

825.3GB/s

Render Config

22

Compute Units

64

-

1408

Shading Units

4096

88

TMUs

256

32

ROPs

64

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

110.1 GPixel/s

70.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

440.3 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

28.18 TFLOPS

2.253 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.09 TFLOPS

563.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

7.045 TFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

475W

550 W

Suggested PSU

850 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 4x Thunderbolt

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

Vega 20

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

GPU Variant

Vega 20 XT

TeraScale 3

Architecture

GCN 5.1

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

13.23 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

331 mm²

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

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.7

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