AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 6080
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Dec 2010
Jan 2027
Generation
Northern Islands
GeForce 60
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
1875 MHz
Base Clock
—
2300 MHz
Boost Clock
—
2800 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
20GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR7
Memory Bus
256bit
320bit
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s
1.20TB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
22
—
Shading Units
1408
10752
TMUs
88
336
ROPs
32
112
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
64 MB
SM Count
—
84
Tensor Cores
—
336
RT Cores
—
84
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
25.60 GPixel/s
313.6 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
70.40 GTexel/s
940.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.253 TFLOPS
60.21 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
563.2 GFLOPS
940.8 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
60.21 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Cayman
GR203
GPU Variant
Cayman PRO(215-0807019)
GR203-400-A1
Architecture
TeraScale 3
Rubin
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
3 nm
Transistors
2.64 billion
Unknown
Die Size
389 mm²
Unknown
Board Design
TDP
200W
350W
Suggested PSU
550 W
750 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1b
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 16-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
1.4
Shader Model
5.0
6.9
CUDA
—
12.0
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.