AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL

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AMD Radeon HD 6950

ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 and 512MB VRAM Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6950 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 44.16GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL 's Advantages

Lower TDP (130W vs 200W)

Score

Radeon HD 6950

VS

Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Jan 2007

Northern Islands

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

690 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

44.16GB/s

Render Config

22

Compute Units

-

1408

Shading Units

-

88

TMUs

12

32

ROPs

12

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.900 GPixel/s

70.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.900 GTexel/s

-

2.253 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

563.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

200W

TDP

130W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

RV570

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

GPU Variant

RV570 XT (215PADAKA12FG)

TeraScale 3

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

0.33 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

230 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.4

OpenGL

2.1 (full) 3.0 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

3.0

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