Radeon HD 8950M and Quadro RTX 6000 - video card comparison

Radeon HD 8950M

Quadro RTX 6000

Architecture

GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)

Turing (2018−2021)

GPU code name

Saturn

TU102

Market segment

Desktop

Workstation

Release date

May 2013

August 2018

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1770 MHz

Core clock speed

1075 MHz

1440 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,651 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

12 nm

Number of transistors

2,080 million

18,600 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

768

4608

Power consumption (TDP)

100 Watt

260 Watt

Texture fill rate

51.60

509.8

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

24 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

5500 MHz

14000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

88 GB/s

672.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

No outputs

4x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 Ultimate (12_1)

CUDA

7.5

OpenCL

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.3

6.5

Vulkan

1.2.131