Product Compare
AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs AMD FirePro W7170M
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Dec 2010 | Oct 2015 |
| Generation | Northern Islands | FirePro Mobile |
| Type | Desktop | Mobile |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Memory Clock | 1250 MHz | 1250 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 2GB | 4GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 256bit | 256bit |
| Bandwidth | 160.0GB/s | 160.0GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Compute Units | 22 | 32 |
| Shading Units | 1408 | 2048 |
| TMUs | 88 | 128 |
| ROPs | 32 | 32 |
| L1 Cache | 8 KB (per CU) | 16 KB (per CU) |
| L2 Cache | 512 KB | 512 KB |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 25.60 GPixel/s | 23.14 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 70.40 GTexel/s | 92.54 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 2.253 TFLOPS | 2.961 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 563.2 GFLOPS | 185.1 GFLOPS |
| FP16 (half) | 2.961 TFLOPS | |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | Cayman | Amethyst |
| GPU Variant | Cayman PRO(215-0807019) | Amethyst XT GL |
| Architecture | TeraScale 3 | GCN 3.0 |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
| Process Size | 40 nm | 28 nm |
| Transistors | 2.64 billion | 5 billion |
| Die Size | 389 mm² | 366 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 200W | 100W |
| Suggested PSU | 550 W | |
| Outputs | 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 | No outputs |
| Power Connectors | 2x 6-pin | None |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 11.2 (11_0) | 12 (12_0) |
| OpenGL | 4.4 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | 2.0 |
| Vulkan | N/A | 1.2 |
| Shader Model | 5.0 | 6.3 |