NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada vs AMD Radeon HD 6950

VS

NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada

AMD Radeon HD 6950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 48GB VRAM RTX 6000 Ada 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 6000 Ada 's Advantages

Released 12 years late

Boost Clock2505MHz

More VRAM (48GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (960.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

16768 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6950 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX 6000 Ada +3941%

91.06 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

2.253 TFLOPS

RTX 6000 Ada

VS

Radeon HD 6950

Graphics Card

Dec 2022

Release Date

Dec 2010

Quadro Ada

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

915 MHz

Base Clock

-

2505 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2500 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

960.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

22

142

SM Count

-

18176

Shading Units

1408

568

TMUs

88

192

ROPs

32

568

Tensor Cores

-

142

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

96 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

481.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

1423 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

70.40 GTexel/s

91.06 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

91.06 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.253 TFLOPS

1423 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

563.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

200W

700 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

-

6.8

Shader Model

5.0

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