GeForce GTX Titan Black vs Radeon HD 6950

Intro

Compare all that 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 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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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 Titan Black		11666 points
Radeon HD 6950		3240 points
	Difference: 8426 (260%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6950		200 Watts
GeForce GTX Titan Black		250 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (25%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX Titan Black, in theory, should perform much faster than the Radeon HD 6950 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		336000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6950		160000 MB/sec
	Difference: 176000 (110%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan Black is much (more or less 203%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 6950. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		213360 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6950		70400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 142960 (203%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX Titan Black is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		42672 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6950		25600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 17072 (67%)

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 (measured in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster 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 can be applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.