GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 vs Radeon HD 6950

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon HD 6950, which makes use of a 40 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 800 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a speed of 1250 MHz on this particular model. It features 1408 SPUs as well as 88 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		4200 points
Radeon HD 6950		3240 points
	Difference: 960 (30%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6950		200 Watts
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		210 Watts
	Difference: 10 Watts (5%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon HD 6950 should be a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 6950		160000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		144000 MB/sec
	Difference: 16000 (11%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 6950 is much (approximately 72%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448. (explain)

Radeon HD 6950		70400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		40992 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 29408 (72%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 is superior to the Radeon HD 6950, though not by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		29280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6950		25600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3680 (14%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.