AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled vs AMD Radeon HD 6950

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AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

AMD Radeon HD 6950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 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 Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1600MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

2688 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6950 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled +481%

13.11 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

2.253 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

VS

Radeon HD 6950

Graphics Card

Jul 2017

Release Date

Dec 2010

Radeon Pro

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1382 MHz

Base Clock

-

1600 MHz

Boost Clock

-

945 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

256bit

483.8GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

22

-

4096

Shading Units

1408

256

TMUs

88

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

102.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

409.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

70.40 GTexel/s

26.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.253 TFLOPS

819.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

563.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

375W

TDP

200W

750 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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Cayman

Vega 10 XTX LCS

GPU Variant

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

GCN 5.0

Architecture

TeraScale 3

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

495 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

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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