AMD Radeon Pro 5700 vs AMD Radeon HD 6950

VS

AMD Radeon Pro 5700

AMD Radeon HD 6950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro 5700 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro 5700 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1350MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro 5700 +176%

6.221 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

2.253 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 5700

VS

Radeon HD 6950

Graphics Card

Aug 2020

Release Date

Dec 2010

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1243 MHz

Base Clock

-

1350 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

384.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

22

-

2304

Shading Units

1408

144

TMUs

88

64

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

86.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

194.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

70.40 GTexel/s

12.44 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.221 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.253 TFLOPS

388.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

563.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

130W

TDP

200W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

No outputs

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 10

GPU Name

Cayman

Navi 10 XLA

GPU Variant

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

40 nm

10.3 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

251 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.0

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