AMD Radeon HD 6950
The AMD ATI Radeon HD 6950 measures 27cm long (10.6 in), the typical length for today's high-end graphics cards. Just as its predecessor, the Radeon HD 6950 GPU has been fabricated using the 40nm process, yet AMD has squeezed in 486 million more transistors resulting in a die increase of 16%. The GPU core is clocked at 800MHz, the GDDR5 memory operates at 1250MHz. The HD 6950 packs 1408 SPUs, 88 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.
VLIW4 (Cayman Pro)
Architecture
High-end
Product Tier
1408
Shader Cores
32
ROPs
88
TMUs
No RT
Ray Tracing
2 GB
Memory
GDDR5
Memory Type
160 GB/s
Bandwidth
200 W
TDP
| GPU Snapshot | |||
| Release date: | Dec 15, 2010 | Price at Launch: | $299 |
| Type: | Desktop | Architecture: | VLIW4 (Cayman Pro) |
| Generation: | Radeon HD 6000 series | Product Tier: | High-end |
| VRAM Capacity: | 2 GB | Total Board Power: | 200 W |
| Core Configuration | |||
| Shader Cores: | 1408 | TMUs: | 88 |
| ROPs: | 32 | L2 Cache: | 512 KB |
| Memory | |||
| VRAM Capacity: | 2 GB | Memory Type: | GDDR5 |
| Memory Speed: | 5 Gbps | Memory Bus: | 256-bit |
| Bandwidth: | 160 GB/s | ||
| Graphics Processing | |||
| Base Clock: | 0.8 GHz | FP32 Throughput: | 2.25 TFLOPs |
| Ray Tracing: | No | Process Size: | 40nm |
| Process Name: | TSMC 40nm | Die Size: | 389 mm² |
| Power & Connectivity | |||
| Total Board Power: | 200 W | Power Connectors: | 2x 6-pin |
| Bus Interface: | PCIe 2.0 x16 | HDMI Support: | HDMI 1.4a |
| DisplayPort Support: | Mini-DP 1.2 | DSC: | No |
| Max Displays: | 4 | ||
| Media & Software Support | |||
| DirectX Support: | 11 | Shader Model: | 5.0 |
| OpenGL Version: | 4.4 | ||
It looks like AMD has listened to the countless requests for a cheaper HD 6950 card. With just 1 GB of memory, instead of 2 GB, the card retails for around $40 less than its big brother. Even though memory size might suggest otherwise, we have seen...
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