AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs AMD FirePro W7170M
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Dec 2010
Oct 2015
Generation
Northern Islands
FirePro Mobile
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s
160.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
22
32
Shading Units
1408
2048
TMUs
88
128
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
25.60 GPixel/s
23.14 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
70.40 GTexel/s
92.54 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.253 TFLOPS
2.961 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
563.2 GFLOPS
185.1 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
2.961 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Cayman
Amethyst
GPU Variant
Cayman PRO(215-0807019)
Amethyst XT GL
Architecture
TeraScale 3
GCN 3.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.64 billion
5 billion
Die Size
389 mm²
366 mm²
Board Design
TDP
200W
100W
Suggested PSU
550 W
-
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.2
Shader Model
5.0
6.3