AMD Radeon R5 240 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 6950

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AMD Radeon R5 240 OEM AMD Radeon HD 6950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 240 OEM 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 R5 240 OEM 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock780MHz

Lower TDP (50W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon HD 6950 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 240 OEM

0.599 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950 +276%

2.253 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 240 OEM

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Radeon HD 6950

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Dec 2010

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

730 MHz

Base Clock

-

780 MHz

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

6

Compute Units

22

384

Shading Units

1408

24

TMUs

88

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

6.240 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

18.72 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

70.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

599.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.253 TFLOPS

37.44 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

563.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Oland

GPU Name

Cayman

-

GPU Variant

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

200W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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