AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 OEM

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AMD Radeon HD 6950 NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 710 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6950 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

1216 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 OEM 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 4 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950 +636%

2.253 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 710 OEM

0.306 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

VS

GeForce GT 710 OEM

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Apr 2015

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

22

Compute Units

-

1408

Shading Units

192

88

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.188 GPixel/s

70.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.75 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.253 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

306.0 GFLOPS

563.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

12.75 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

GK208B

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Kepler 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

1.02 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

87 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

Unknown

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.175

-

CUDA

3.5

5.0

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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