AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs AMD FirePro S7000

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 and 4GB VRAM FirePro S7000 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 153.6GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro S7000 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (150W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950

2.253 TFLOPS

FirePro S7000 +7%

2.432 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

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FirePro S7000

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Aug 2012

Northern Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

22

Compute Units

20

1408

Shading Units

1280

88

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

30.40 GPixel/s

70.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.253 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.432 TFLOPS

563.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

152.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

TeraScale 3

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

150W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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