AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs NVIDIA Quadro 6000

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Cayman GF100
GPU variant Cayman PRO (215-0807019) GF100-850-A3
Architecture TeraScale 3 Fermi
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 40 nm 40 nm
Number of transistors 2,640 million 3,100 million
Die size 389 mm² 529 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Dec 14th, 2010 Dec 10th, 2010
Generation Northern Islands Quadro
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Launch price 299 USD 4,399 USD
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Reviews 111 in our database 26 in our database
Predecessor Evergreen
Successor Southern Islands

Clocks

GPU clock 800 MHz 574 MHz
Memory clock 1250 MHz 5 Gbps effective 747 MHz 3 Gbps effective
Shader clock 1147 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 2 GB 6 GB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory bus width 256 bit 384 bit
Bandwidth 160.0 GB/s 143.4 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 1408 448
TMUs 88 56
ROPs 32 48
Compute units 22
Cache L1 8 KB (per CU) 64 KB (per SM)
Cache L2 512 KB 768 KB
SM count 14

Performance

Pixel rate 25.60 GPixel/s 16.07 GPixel/s
Texture rate 70.40 GTexel/s 32.14 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 2.253 TFLOPS 1,028 GFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 563.2 GFLOPS (1:4) 513.9 GFLOPS (1:2)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot Dual-slot
Length 286 mm 11.3 inches 248 mm 9.8 inches
Width 126 mm 5 inches 111 mm 4.4 inches
Height 42 mm 1.7 inches
TDP 200 W 204 W
Suggested PSU 550 W 550 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x HDMI2x mini-DisplayPort 1x DVI2x DisplayPort1x S-Video
Power connectors 2x 6-pin 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Board number C216-47 P1030

API Support & Features

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 12 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.4 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 1.1
Vulkan
Shader model 5.0 5.1
CUDA 2.0

Other Features

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