Radeon HD 6930 and Quadro RTX 8000 - video card comparison

Radeon HD 6930

Quadro RTX 8000

Architecture

TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)

Turing (2018−2021)

GPU code name

Cayman

TU102

Market segment

Desktop

Workstation

Release date

December 2011

August 2018

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

-

1770 MHz

Core clock speed

750 MHz

1395 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,920.0 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

12 nm

Number of transistors

2,640 million

18,600 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1280

4608

Power consumption (TDP)

186 Watt

260 Watt

Texture fill rate

60.00

509.8

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

48 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

4800 MHz

14000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

153.6 GB/s

672.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort

4x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C

HDMI

+

-

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

12 Ultimate (12_1)

CUDA

-

7.5

OpenCL

1.2

2.0

OpenGL

4.4

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

6.5

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.131