NVIDIA RTX A5000-8Q vs AMD Radeon HD 6950

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NVIDIA RTX A5000-8Q

AMD Radeon HD 6950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM RTX A5000 8Q 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 A5000-8Q 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1695MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

6784 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6950 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 230W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX A5000 8Q +1132%

27.77 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

2.253 TFLOPS

RTX A5000 8Q

VS

Radeon HD 6950

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Dec 2010

Quadro Ampere

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1170 MHz

Base Clock

-

1695 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

768.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

22

64

SM Count

-

8192

Shading Units

1408

256

TMUs

88

96

ROPs

32

256

Tensor Cores

-

64

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

6 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

162.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

433.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

70.40 GTexel/s

27.77 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

27.77 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.253 TFLOPS

433.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

563.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

230W

TDP

200W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

4x 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

GA102

GPU Name

Cayman

-

GPU Variant

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 3

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

628 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

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.0

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