AMD Radeon Pro V520 vs AMD Radeon HD 6950

VS

AMD Radeon Pro V520

AMD Radeon HD 6950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro V520 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 V520 's Advantages

Released 10 years late

Boost Clock1600MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6950 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro V520 +227%

7.373 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

2.253 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro V520

VS

Radeon HD 6950

Graphics Card

Dec 2020

Release Date

Dec 2010

Radeon Pro

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1600 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

256bit

512.0GB/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

102.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

230.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

70.40 GTexel/s

14.75 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.373 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.253 TFLOPS

460.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

563.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

225W

TDP

200W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

No outputs

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 12

GPU Name

Cayman

Navi 12

GPU Variant

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

40 nm

Unknown

Transistors

2.64 billion

Unknown

Die Size

389 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.2

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.0

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