Radeon HD 6950 vs Radeon R7 240

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 240, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 730 MHz. The DDR3 memory runs at a speed of 900 MHz on this specific card. It features 320 SPUs as well as 20 TAUs and 8 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

Radeon HD 6950		3240 points
Radeon R7 240		1218 points
	Difference: 2022 (166%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 240		30 Watts
Radeon HD 6950		200 Watts
	Difference: 170 Watts (567%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 6950 should theoretically perform a lot faster than the Radeon R7 240 in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 6950		160000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 240		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 131200 (456%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 6950 will be a lot (approximately 382%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 240. (explain)

Radeon HD 6950		70400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 240		14600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 55800 (382%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon HD 6950 is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon HD 6950		25600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 240		5840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 19760 (338%)

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

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, 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 AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount 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 output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.