AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6950

NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 and 12GB VRAM RTX A5000 12Q 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 230W)

NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1695MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

6784 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950

2.253 TFLOPS

RTX A5000 12Q +1132%

27.77 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

VS

RTX A5000 12Q

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Apr 2021

Northern Islands

Generation

Quadro Ampere

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1170 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

768.0GB/s

Render Config

22

Compute Units

-

SM Count

64

1408

Shading Units

8192

88

TMUs

256

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

256

-

RT Cores

64

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

162.7 GPixel/s

70.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

433.9 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

27.77 TFLOPS

2.253 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

27.77 TFLOPS

563.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

433.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

230W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

GA102

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

628 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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