NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 SE vs AMD Radeon HD 6950

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Jan 2026
Dec 2010
Generation
GeForce 50
Northern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1740 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2377 MHz
-
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1250 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
24GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR7
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
256bit
Bandwidth
1.34TB/s
160.0GB/s

Render Config

SM Count
110
-
Shading Units
14080
1408
TMUs
440
88
ROPs
160
32
Tensor Cores
440
-
RT Cores
110
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
96 MB
512 KB
Compute Units
-
22

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
380.3 GPixel/s
25.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
1045.9 GTexel/s
70.40 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
66.94 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
66.94 TFLOPS
2.253 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1045.9 GFLOPS
563.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
GB202
Cayman
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
TeraScale 3
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
5 nm
40 nm
Transistors
92.2 billion
2.64 billion
Die Size
750 mm²
389 mm²
GPU Variant
-
Cayman PRO(215-0807019)

Board Design

TDP
500W
200W
Suggested PSU
900 W
550 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1b
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.4
N/A
CUDA
12.0
-
Shader Model
6.9
5.0