AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs NVIDIA RTX A1000

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6950

NVIDIA RTX A1000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 and 8GB VRAM RTX A1000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX A1000 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1462MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950

2.253 TFLOPS

RTX A1000 +199%

6.737 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

VS

RTX A1000

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Apr 2024

Northern Islands

Generation

Quadro Ampere

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

727 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1462 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

22

Compute Units

-

SM Count

18

1408

Shading Units

2304

88

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

72

-

RT Cores

18

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

46.78 GPixel/s

70.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

105.3 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

6.737 TFLOPS

2.253 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.737 TFLOPS

563.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

105.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

50W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

GA107

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

8.7 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

5.0

Shader Model

6.7

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