FirePro W600 vs Radeon HD 6950

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between FirePro W600 and Radeon HD 6950, there are a couple of things to consider. Cards with more VRAM in general perform better and allow you to play on higher graphics settings. Size also makes a difference. A model with a large heatsink can occupy up to three expansion slots on a motherboard. Be sure you have enough room in your PC case. When comparing GPUs with different architectures, more processing cores and even higher TFLOPS will not always translate to better performance. To help you decide which GPU you need, we have measured frame rates in a number of popular games. For more on how the FirePro W600 stacks up against Radeon HD 6950, check out specs charts below.

Main Specs

  FirePro W600 Radeon HD 6950
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 500 Watt
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None 2x 6-pin
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 2 GB
Display Connectors 6x mini-DisplayPort 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
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  • Radeon HD 6950 has 566% more power consumption, than FirePro W600.
  • FirePro W600 is connected by PCIe 3.0 x16, and Radeon HD 6950 uses PCIe 2.0 x16 interface.
  • FirePro W600 and Radeon HD 6950 have maximum RAM of 2 GB.
  • Both cards are used in Desktops.
  • FirePro W600 is build with GCN 1.0 architecture, and Radeon HD 6950 - with TeraScale 3.
  • FirePro W600 is manufactured by 28 nm process technology, and Radeon HD 6950 - by 40 nm process technology.
  • Radeon HD 6950 is 104 mm longer, than FirePro W600.
  • Memory clock speed of FirePro W600 is 2750 MHz higher, than Radeon HD 6950.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 8−9 14−16
ultra / 1080p 5−6 8−9
QHD / 1440p 0−1 3−4
low / 720p 18−20 27−30
medium / 1080p 10−11 16−18
The average gaming FPS of Radeon HD 6950 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 70% more, than FirePro W600.

Full Specs

  FirePro W600 Radeon HD 6950
Architecture GCN 1.0 TeraScale 3
Code name Cape Verde Cayman
Type Workstation Desktop
Release date 13 June 2012 14 December 2010
Pipelines 512 1408
Core clock speed 750 MHz
Boost Clock 800 MHz
Transistor count 1,500 million 2,640 million
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 24.00 70.40
Floating-point performance 768.0 gflops 2,252.8 gflops
Length 163 mm 267 mm
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 4000 MHz 1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth 64 GB/s
DirectX 12 (11_1)
Shader Model 5.1 5.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.4
OpenCL 1.2 1.2
Vulkan 1.2.131
Bus support PCIe 2.0 x16
HDMI +
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 94 Mh/s 244 Mh/s
Eyefinity +
Design reference
CrossFire +
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