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Radeon HD 6950 vs Radeon R9 380 4G

Intro

The Radeon HD 6950 features a GPU clock speed of 800 MHz, and the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM is set to run at 1250 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 1408 SPUs, 88 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 380 4G, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 970 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a speed of 1425 MHz on this specific card. It features 1792 SPUs as well as 112 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

Radeon R9 380 4G 8837 points
Radeon HD 6950 3240 points
Difference: 5597 (173%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 380 4G 190 Watts
Radeon HD 6950 200 Watts
Difference: 10 Watts (5%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 380 4G is 14% quicker than the Radeon HD 6950 overall, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 4G 182400 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6950 160000 MB/sec
Difference: 22400 (14%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 380 4G should be a lot (approximately 54%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 6950. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 4G 108640 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6950 70400 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 38240 (54%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R9 380 4G is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 4G 31040 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6950 25600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 5440 (21%)

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

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Model Radeon HD 6950 Radeon R9 380 4G
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year December 2010 June 2015
Code Name Cayman Pro Antigua PRO
Memory 1024 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 800 MHz 970 MHz
Memory Speed 5000 MHz 5700 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 200 watts 190 watts
Bandwidth 160000 MB/sec 182400 MB/sec
Texel Rate 70400 Mtexels/sec 108640 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 25600 Mpixels/sec 31040 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1408 1792
Texture Mapping Units 88 112
Render Output Units 32 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 2640 million 5000 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 ×16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units 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 per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. 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 bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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Radeon HD 6950

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