NVIDIA TITAN X Pascal vs AMD Radeon HD 6950

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NVIDIA TITAN X Pascal AMD Radeon HD 6950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM TITAN X Pascal and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA TITAN X Pascal 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1531MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (480.4GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

2176 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6950 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

TITAN X Pascal +386%

10.97 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

2.253 TFLOPS

TITAN X Pascal

VS

Radeon HD 6950

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Dec 2010

GeForce 10

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1417 MHz

Base Clock

-

1531 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1251 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

480.4GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

-

Compute Units

22

3584

Shading Units

1408

224

TMUs

88

96

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

147.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

342.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

70.40 GTexel/s

171.5 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.97 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.253 TFLOPS

342.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

563.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP102

GPU Name

Cayman

GP102-400-A1

GPU Variant

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

40 nm

11.8 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

471 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

200W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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