NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation vs AMD Radeon HD 6950

VS

NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation

AMD Radeon HD 6950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM RTX 5000 Ada Generation and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock2550MHz

More VRAM (32GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

11392 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6950 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX 5000 Ada Generation +2797%

65.28 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

2.253 TFLOPS

RTX 5000 Ada Generation

VS

Radeon HD 6950

Graphics Card

Aug 2023

Release Date

Dec 2010

Quadro Ada

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1155 MHz

Base Clock

-

2550 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

32GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

576.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

22

100

SM Count

-

12800

Shading Units

1408

400

TMUs

88

176

ROPs

32

400

Tensor Cores

-

100

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

72 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

448.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

1020 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

70.40 GTexel/s

65.28 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

65.28 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.253 TFLOPS

1020 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

563.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

200W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

Cayman

AD102

GPU Variant

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

40 nm

76.3 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

609 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.9

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.0

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