AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs AMD Radeon R7 350

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 350 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6950 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 350 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 7 months late

Lower TDP (55W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950 +175%

2.253 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 350

0.819 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

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Radeon R7 350

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Jul 2016

Northern Islands

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

22

Compute Units

8

1408

Shading Units

512

88

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

70.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.253 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

819.2 GFLOPS

563.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

51.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

Cape Verde

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRO MOCHA

TeraScale 3

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

55W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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