Geforce GTX 760 vs Radeon HD 6950

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 6950, which has core speeds of 800 MHz on the GPU, and 1250 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory. 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 760		5923 points
Radeon HD 6950		3240 points
	Difference: 2683 (83%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Geforce GTX 760		170 Watts
Radeon HD 6950		200 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (18%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Geforce GTX 760 should be a small bit faster than the Radeon HD 6950 in general. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		192256 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6950		160000 MB/sec
	Difference: 32256 (20%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 760 is quite a bit (approximately 34%) better at AF than the Radeon HD 6950. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		94080 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6950		70400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 23680 (34%)

Pixel Rate

The Geforce GTX 760 should be a lot (more or less 23%) better at FSAA than the Radeon HD 6950, and also should be capable of handling higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		31360 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6950		25600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 5760 (23%)

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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.