AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs AMD Radeon RX 6700

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

AMD Radeon RX 6700

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM and 10GB VRAM Radeon RX 6700 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6700 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 165% (2450MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (10GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

3.315 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6700 +240%

11.29 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

VS

Radeon RX 6700

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Jun 2021

Sea Islands

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1941 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

2450 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

10GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

160bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

36

-

1792

Shading Units

2304

112

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

64

-

RT Cores

36

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

768 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

L3 Cache

80 MB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

156.8 GPixel/s

103.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

352.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

22.58 TFLOPS

3.315 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

11.29 TFLOPS

828.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

705.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

175W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Navi 22

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

Navi 22 XTL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

17.2 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

335 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5

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