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Radeon HD 6950 vs Radeon HD 7950
Intro
The Radeon HD 6950 has core clock speeds of 800 MHz on the GPU, and 1250 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1408 SPUs as well as 88 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.Compare that to the Radeon HD 7950, which features core speeds of 800 MHz on the GPU, and 1250 MHz on the 1536 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1792 SPUs along with 112 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.
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
| Radeon HD 7950 |
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7731 points |
| Radeon HD 6950 |
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3240 points |
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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks
Both cards have the same power consumption.Memory Bandwidth
The Radeon HD 7950 should in theory be quite a bit faster than the Radeon HD 6950 in general. (explain)
| Radeon HD 7950 |
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240000 MB/sec |
| Radeon HD 6950 |
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160000 MB/sec |
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Texel Rate
The Radeon HD 7950 should be a lot (about 27%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 6950. (explain)| Radeon HD 7950 |
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89600 Mtexels/sec |
| Radeon HD 6950 |
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70400 Mtexels/sec |
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Pixel Rate
Both cards have the exact same pixel rate, so theoretically they should perform equally good at at anti-aliasing, and be capable of handling the same resolutions. (explain)
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.
Price Comparison
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Specifications
| Model | Radeon HD 6950 | Radeon HD 7950 |
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| Manufacturer | AMD | AMD |
| Year | December 2010 | January 2012 |
| Code Name | Cayman Pro | Tahiti Pro |
| Memory | 1024 MB | 1536 MB |
| Core Speed | 800 MHz | 800 MHz |
| Memory Speed | 5000 MHz | 5000 MHz |
| Power (Max TDP) | 200 watts | 200 watts |
| Bandwidth | 160000 MB/sec | 240000 MB/sec |
| Texel Rate | 70400 Mtexels/sec | 89600 Mtexels/sec |
| Pixel Rate | 25600 Mpixels/sec | 25600 Mpixels/sec |
| Unified Shaders | 1408 | 1792 |
| Texture Mapping Units | 88 | 112 |
| Render Output Units | 32 | 32 |
| Bus Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256-bit | 384-bit |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | 28 nm |
| Transistors | 2640 million | 4313 million |
| Bus | PCIe x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| DirectX Version | DirectX 11 | DirectX 11.1 |
| OpenGL Version | OpenGL 4.1 | OpenGL 4.2 |
Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.
Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.
Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.
Radeon HD 6950Amazon.com
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Radeon HD 7950Amazon.com
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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.
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Comments
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