AMD Radeon HD 6930 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Dec 2011
Aug 2017
Generation
Northern Islands
Vega
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock
1200 MHz
800 MHz
Base Clock
-
1156 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1471 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
1024MB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM2
Memory Bus
256bit
2048bit
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
409.6GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
20
56
Shading Units
1280
3584
TMUs
80
224
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
4 MB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
24.00 GPixel/s
94.14 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
60.00 GTexel/s
329.5 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.920 TFLOPS
10.54 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
480.0 GFLOPS
659.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
21.09 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Cayman
Vega 10
GPU Variant
Cayman CE(215-0807105)
Vega 10 XL(215-0894216)
Architecture
TeraScale 3
GCN 5.0
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Process Size
40 nm
14 nm
Transistors
2.64 billion
12.5 billion
Die Size
389 mm²
495 mm²

Board Design

TDP
186W
210W
Suggested PSU
450 W
550 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.2
Shader Model
5.0
6.4

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