AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs NVIDIA CMP 90HX
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Dec 2010
Jul 2021
Generation
Northern Islands
Mining GPUs
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x4
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
1188 MHz
Base Clock
—
1500 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1710 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
10GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6X
Memory Bus
256bit
320bit
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s
760.3GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
22
—
Shading Units
1408
6400
TMUs
88
200
ROPs
32
80
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
5 MB
SM Count
—
50
Tensor Cores
—
200
RT Cores
—
50
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
25.60 GPixel/s
136.8 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
70.40 GTexel/s
342.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.253 TFLOPS
21.89 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
563.2 GFLOPS
342.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
21.89 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Cayman
GA102
GPU Variant
Cayman PRO(215-0807019)
GA102-100-A1
Architecture
TeraScale 3
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
40 nm
8 nm
Transistors
2.64 billion
28.3 billion
Die Size
389 mm²
628 mm²
Board Design
TDP
200W
320W
Suggested PSU
550 W
700 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
2x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.3
Shader Model
5.0
6.8
CUDA
—
8.6
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.