AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs AMD Radeon Pro W5500

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6950

AMD Radeon Pro W5500

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro W5500 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro W5500 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1855MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (125W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950

2.253 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro W5500 +131%

5.224 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

VS

Radeon Pro W5500

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Feb 2020

Northern Islands

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1744 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1855 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

22

Compute Units

22

-

1408

Shading Units

1408

88

TMUs

88

32

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.36 GPixel/s

70.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

163.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.45 TFLOPS

2.253 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.224 TFLOPS

563.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

326.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

125W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

Navi 14

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

GPU Variant

Navi 14 PRO XL

TeraScale 3

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

6.4 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

158 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

6.5

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