ATI FirePro V3700 vs AMD Radeon HD 6950
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM FirePro V3700 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI FirePro V3700 's Advantages
Lower TDP (32W vs 200W)
AMD Radeon HD 6950 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 4 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 15.20GB/s)
1368 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro V3700
0.064 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 6950
+3420%
2.253 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2008
Release Date
Dec 2010
FirePro
Generation
Northern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
950 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
15.20GB/s
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s
Render Config
2
Compute Units
22
-
-
-
40
Shading Units
1408
4
TMUs
88
4
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.200 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
25.60 GPixel/s
3.200 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
70.40 GTexel/s
-
-
-
64.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.253 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
563.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
32W
TDP
200W
200 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
RV620
GPU Name
Cayman
RV620 GL
(215-0670004)
GPU Variant
Cayman PRO
(215-0807019)
TeraScale
Architecture
TeraScale 3
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.181 billion
Transistors
2.64 billion
67 mm²
Die Size
389 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.4
N/A
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
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-
-
4.1
Shader Model
5.0
