Product Compare
AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs NVIDIA A10 PCIe
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Dec 2010 | Apr 2021 |
| Generation | Northern Islands | Tesla |
| Type | Desktop | Professional |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Memory Clock | 1250 MHz | 1563 MHz |
| Base Clock | 885 MHz | |
| Boost Clock | 1695 MHz | |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 2GB | 24GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Bus | 256bit | 384bit |
| Bandwidth | 160.0GB/s | 600.2GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Compute Units | 22 | |
| Shading Units | 1408 | 9216 |
| TMUs | 88 | 288 |
| ROPs | 32 | 96 |
| L1 Cache | 8 KB (per CU) | 128 KB (per SM) |
| L2 Cache | 512 KB | 6 MB |
| SM Count | 72 | |
| Tensor Cores | 288 | |
| RT Cores | 72 | |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 25.60 GPixel/s | 162.7 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 70.40 GTexel/s | 488.2 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 2.253 TFLOPS | 31.24 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 563.2 GFLOPS | 976.3 GFLOPS |
| FP16 (half) | 31.24 TFLOPS | |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | Cayman | GA102 |
| GPU Variant | Cayman PRO(215-0807019) | GA102-890-A1 |
| Architecture | TeraScale 3 | Ampere |
| Foundry | TSMC | Samsung |
| Process Size | 40 nm | 8 nm |
| Transistors | 2.64 billion | 28.3 billion |
| Die Size | 389 mm² | 628 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 200W | 150W |
| Suggested PSU | 550 W | 450 W |
| Outputs | 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 | No outputs |
| Power Connectors | 2x 6-pin | 1x 8-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 | 1.3 |
| Shader Model | 5.0 | 6.6 |
| CUDA | 8.6 | |