AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1010 DDR4
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1010 DDR4 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 16.80GB/s)
1152 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GT 1010 DDR4 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock1380MHz
Lower TDP (20W vs 200W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 6950
+219%
2.253 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 1010 DDR4
0.706 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2010
Release Date
Jan 2021
Northern Islands
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x4
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1152 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1380 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1050 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR4
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
160.0GB/s
Bandwidth
16.80GB/s
Render Config
22
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
2
1408
Shading Units
256
88
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
25.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
11.04 GPixel/s
70.40 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
22.08 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.253 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
706.6 GFLOPS
563.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
29.44 GFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
20W
550 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 2.0
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Cayman
GPU Name
GP108
Cayman PRO
(215-0807019)
GPU Variant
GP108-200-A1
TeraScale 3
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
40 nm
Process Size
14 nm
2.64 billion
Transistors
1.8 billion
389 mm²
Die Size
74 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
6.1
5.0
Shader Model
6.7
