AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs AMD Radeon RX 6800

GPU Specs Compare

G

AMD Radeon HD 6950

AMD 2010-12
G

AMD Radeon RX 6800

AMD 2020-10

Graphics Card

Release Date
Dec 2010
Oct 2020
Generation
Northern Islands
Navi II
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock
1250 MHz
2000 MHz
Base Clock
-
1700 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2105 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
2GB
16GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s
512.0GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
22
60
Shading Units
1408
3840
TMUs
88
240
ROPs
32
96
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
128 KB per Array
L2 Cache
512 KB
4 MB
RT Cores
-
60
L3 Cache
-
128 MB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
25.60 GPixel/s
202.1 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
70.40 GTexel/s
505.2 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.253 TFLOPS
16.17 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
563.2 GFLOPS
1010 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
32.33 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Cayman
Navi 21
GPU Variant
Cayman PRO(215-0807019)
Navi 21 XL(215-121000187)
Architecture
TeraScale 3
RDNA 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
7 nm
Transistors
2.64 billion
26.8 billion
Die Size
389 mm²
520 mm²

Board Design

TDP
200W
250W
Suggested PSU
550 W
600 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.12x DisplayPort 1.4a1x USB Type-C
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
2.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.3
Shader Model
5.0
6.5

📊 Benchmark

3DMark Time Spy
-
16,182
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
-
7,771
3DMark Speed Way
-
3,062