AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs NVIDIA A30 PCIe
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Dec 2010
Apr 2021
Generation
Northern Islands
Tesla Ampere
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
1215 MHz
Base Clock
—
930 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1440 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
24GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM2e
Memory Bus
256bit
3072bit
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s
933.1GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
22
—
Shading Units
1408
3584
TMUs
88
224
ROPs
32
96
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
192 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
24 MB
SM Count
—
56
Tensor Cores
—
224
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
25.60 GPixel/s
138.2 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
70.40 GTexel/s
322.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.253 TFLOPS
10.32 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
563.2 GFLOPS
5.161 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
10.32 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Cayman
GA100
GPU Variant
Cayman PRO(215-0807019)
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Architecture
TeraScale 3
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
7 nm
Transistors
2.64 billion
54.2 billion
Die Size
389 mm²
826 mm²
Board Design
TDP
200W
165W
Suggested PSU
550 W
450 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
8-pin EPS
Graphics Features
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
N/A
OpenGL
4.4
N/A
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Shader Model
5.0
N/A
CUDA
—
8.0
Benchmark
Blender
—
2,036
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.