AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs ATI Radeon HD 4730

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4730 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6950 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 4730 's Advantages

Lower TDP (110W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950 +134%

2.253 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4730

0.96 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

VS

Radeon HD 4730

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Jun 2009

Northern Islands

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

22

Compute Units

8

1408

Shading Units

640

88

TMUs

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.000 GPixel/s

70.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.253 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

960.0 GFLOPS

563.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

192.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

RV770

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

GPU Variant

RV770 CE (215-0669093)

TeraScale 3

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

110W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

4.1

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