AMD Radeon Pro W5700X vs AMD Radeon HD 6950

VS

AMD Radeon Pro W5700X

AMD Radeon HD 6950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro W5700X 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 W5700X 's Advantages

Released 9 years late

Boost Clock2040MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6950 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 205W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro W5700X +363%

10.44 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

2.253 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro W5700X

VS

Radeon HD 6950

Graphics Card

Dec 2019

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

-

2040 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

22

-

2560

Shading Units

1408

160

TMUs

88

64

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

130.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

326.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

70.40 GTexel/s

20.89 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.44 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.253 TFLOPS

652.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

563.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

205W

TDP

200W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 4x Thunderbolt

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

-

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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