AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs AMD Radeon HD 7450 OEM

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AMD Radeon HD 6950 AMD Radeon HD 7450 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 7450 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6950 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 8.528GB/s)

1248 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7450 OEM 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 1 months late

Lower TDP (18W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950 +1026%

2.253 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7450 OEM

0.2 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

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Radeon HD 7450 OEM

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Jan 2012

Northern Islands

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

533 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

8.528GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

22

Compute Units

2

1408

Shading Units

160

88

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.500 GPixel/s

70.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.253 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

200.0 GFLOPS

563.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

Caicos

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

GPU Variant

Caimour

TeraScale 3

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

18W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.0

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