AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Dec 2010
Apr 2021
Generation
Northern Islands
Quadro Ampere
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
2000 MHz
Base Clock
-
1170 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1695 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
384bit
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s
768.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
22
-
Shading Units
1408
8192
TMUs
88
256
ROPs
32
96
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
6 MB
SM Count
-
64
Tensor Cores
-
256
RT Cores
-
64
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
25.60 GPixel/s
162.7 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
70.40 GTexel/s
433.9 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.253 TFLOPS
27.77 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
563.2 GFLOPS
433.9 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
27.77 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Cayman
GA102
GPU Variant
Cayman PRO(215-0807019)
-
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
230W
Suggested PSU
550 W
550 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
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
6.7
CUDA
-
8.6