AMD Radeon HD 6930 vs AMD Radeon HD 7950

GPU Specs Compare

G

AMD Radeon HD 6930

AMD 2011-12
G

AMD Radeon HD 7950

AMD 2012-01

Graphics Card

Release Date
Dec 2011
Jan 2012
Generation
Northern Islands
Southern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock
1200 MHz
1250 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
1024MB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
384bit
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
240.0GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
20
28
Shading Units
1280
1792
TMUs
80
112
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
768 KB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
24.00 GPixel/s
25.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
60.00 GTexel/s
89.60 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.920 TFLOPS
2.867 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
480.0 GFLOPS
716.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Cayman
Tahiti
GPU Variant
Cayman CE(215-0807105)
Tahiti PRO(215-0821056)
Architecture
TeraScale 3
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.64 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
389 mm²
352 mm²

Board Design

TDP
186W
200W
Suggested PSU
450 W
550 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
1.2
Shader Model
5.0
5.1

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