AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB

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AMD Radeon HD 6950 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 and 20GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6950 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1665MHz

More VRAM (20GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

8832 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950

2.253 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB +1413%

34.1 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

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GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Jan 2022

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1335 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

20GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

320bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

760.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

80

22

Compute Units

-

1408

Shading Units

10240

88

TMUs

320

32

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

320

-

RT Cores

80

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

186.5 GPixel/s

70.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

532.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

34.10 TFLOPS

2.253 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

34.10 TFLOPS

563.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

532.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

GA102

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

GPU Variant

GA102-225-A1

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

350W

550 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

5.0

Shader Model

6.6

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