AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6950 AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 and 24GB VRAM Radeon RX 7900 XTX 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 355W)

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock2498MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (960.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

4736 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950

2.253 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +2624%

61.39 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

VS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Nov 2022

Northern Islands

Generation

Navi III

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1929 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2498 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

960.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

22

Compute Units

96

1408

Shading Units

6144

88

TMUs

384

32

ROPs

192

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

96

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

256 KB per Array

512 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

479.6 GPixel/s

70.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

959.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

122.8 TFLOPS

2.253 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

61.39 TFLOPS

563.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1.918 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

Navi 31

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

GPU Variant

Navi 31 XTX (215-145000146)

TeraScale 3

Architecture

RDNA 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

5 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

57.7 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

355W

550 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1a 2x DisplayPort 2.1 1x USB Type-C

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.7

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT vs AMD Radeon HD 6950

2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2 vs AMD Radeon HD 6950

3

AMD Radeon R5 430 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 6950

4

AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 6950

5

ATI Radeon HD 5870 vs AMD Radeon HD 6950

6

AMD Radeon R9 270X vs AMD Radeon HD 6950

7

AMD Radeon PRO W7900 vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

8

AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM

9

AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

10

AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs AMD Radeon R5 230

Related News

1

Intel Arrow Lake-S Features Dual Direct M.2 Slots: One PCIe 5.0 x4 and One PCIe 4.0 x4

2

AMD Ryzen 9000X3D Series to Feature Fully Unlocked Overclocking; DDR5-6400: The 'Sweet Spot' for Zen 5 Memory Speeds

3

Intel Z890 Motherboard Specs Leaked: Farewell to DDR4 Memory

4

AMD Ryzen 9000 Series Now Available for Pre-order in Europe: 9950X Priced at €660, Shipping by August 2

5

AMD's Latest Breakthrough Technology Could Change the Game in the Future

6

Researchers Utilize NVIDIA Omniverse Platform to Analyze and Improve 3D Stacked Chip Designs

7

TSMC to Receive Over 60 EUV Lithography Machines Over the Next Two Years, Investing More Than $12.3 Billion

8

Samsung's Own 3nm Yield is Disheartening: Galaxy S25 May Introduce MediaTek for the First Time

9

AMD Ryzen 9000 DDR5 Memory Frequency Soars: Reaches 8000MHz with All Four Slots Occupied

10

Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 to Feature Frame Interpolation for GPU: A Game-Changing Experience