Product Compare

NVIDIA RTX A5000 vs AMD Radeon HD 6950

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Apr 2021 Dec 2010
Generation Quadro Ampere Northern Islands
Type Professional Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1170 MHz
Boost Clock 1695 MHz
Memory Clock 2000 MHz 1250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 24GB 2GB
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR5
Memory Bus 384bit 256bit
Bandwidth 768.0GB/s 160.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count 64
Shading Units 8192 1408
TMUs 256 88
ROPs 96 32
Tensor Cores 256
RT Cores 64
L1 Cache 128 KB (per SM) 8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 6 MB 512 KB
Compute Units 22
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 162.7 GPixel/s 25.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 433.9 GTexel/s 70.40 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 27.77 TFLOPS
FP32 (float) 27.77 TFLOPS 2.253 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 433.9 GFLOPS 563.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name GA102 Cayman
Architecture Ampere TeraScale 3
Foundry Samsung TSMC
Process Size 8 nm 40 nm
Transistors 28.3 billion 2.64 billion
Die Size 628 mm² 389 mm²
GPU Variant Cayman PRO(215-0807019)
Board Design
TDP 230W 200W
Suggested PSU 550 W 550 W
Outputs 4x DisplayPort 1.4a 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors 1x 8-pin 2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.4
OpenCL 3.0 1.2
Vulkan 1.3 N/A
CUDA 8.6
Shader Model 6.7 5.0