AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

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AMD Radeon HD 6950 AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 GME to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1420MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950

2.253 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590 GME +190%

6.543 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

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Radeon RX 590 GME

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Mar 2020

Northern Islands

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1257 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1420 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

22

Compute Units

36

1408

Shading Units

2304

88

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

45.44 GPixel/s

70.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

204.5 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

6.543 TFLOPS

2.253 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.543 TFLOPS

563.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

409.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

Polaris 20

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTR (215-0910066)

TeraScale 3

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

175W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.7

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