AMD Radeon RX 580 vs AMD Radeon HD 6950

VS

AMD Radeon RX 580

AMD Radeon HD 6950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 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 RX 580 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1340MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (185W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580 +174%

6.175 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

2.253 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580

VS

Radeon HD 6950

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Dec 2010

Polaris

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1257 MHz

Base Clock

-

1340 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

22

-

2304

Shading Units

1408

144

TMUs

88

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

42.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

193.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

70.40 GTexel/s

6.175 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.175 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.253 TFLOPS

385.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

563.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

185W

TDP

200W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

Cayman

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

GPU Variant

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale 3

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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