AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM and 48GB VRAM RTX 6000 Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 300W)

NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 171% (2505MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (48GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (960.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

16384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

3.315 TFLOPS

RTX 6000 Ada Generation +2646%

91.06 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

VS

RTX 6000 Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Dec 2022

Sea Islands

Generation

Quadro Ada

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

915 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

2505 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

48GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

960.0GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

142

1792

Shading Units

18176

112

TMUs

568

32

ROPs

192

-

Tensor Cores

568

-

RT Cores

142

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

96 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

481.0 GPixel/s

103.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1423 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

91.06 TFLOPS

3.315 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

91.06 TFLOPS

828.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1423 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

300W

550 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

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

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

AD102

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

AD102

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

76.3 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

609 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.9

5.1

Shader Model

6.8

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