AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs AMD Radeon Pro VII

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6950

AMD Radeon Pro VII

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 and 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro VII 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 250W)

AMD Radeon Pro VII 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1700MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1020GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

2432 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950

2.253 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro VII +479%

13.06 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

VS

Radeon Pro VII

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

May 2020

Northern Islands

Generation

Radeon Pro Vega

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1400 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1700 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

1020GB/s

Render Config

22

Compute Units

60

-

1408

Shading Units

3840

88

TMUs

240

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

108.8 GPixel/s

70.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

408.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

26.11 TFLOPS

2.253 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.06 TFLOPS

563.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

6.528 TFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

250W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

Vega 20

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

GPU Variant

Vega 20 GLXT WS (215-0914026)

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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