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Radeon HD 6950 vs Radeon R9 M290X

Intro

The Radeon HD 6950 comes with core 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 all of that to the Radeon R9 M290X, which comes with core clock speeds of 850 MHz on the GPU, and 1200 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1280 SPUs along with 80 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 M290X 100 Watts
Radeon HD 6950 200 Watts
Difference: 100 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 6950 should in theory perform a little bit faster than the Radeon R9 M290X overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 6950 160000 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M290X 153600 MB/sec
Difference: 6400 (4%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 6950 will be a small bit (about 4%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R9 M290X. (explain)

Radeon HD 6950 70400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M290X 68000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 2400 (4%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R9 M290X is a better choice, though only just barely. (explain)

Radeon R9 M290X 27200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6950 25600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 1600 (6%)

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 M290X
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year December 2010 May 1 2014
Code Name Cayman Pro Neptune XT
Memory 1024 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 800 MHz 850 MHz
Memory Speed 5000 MHz 4800 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 200 watts 100 watts
Bandwidth 160000 MB/sec 153600 MB/sec
Texel Rate 70400 Mtexels/sec 68000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 25600 Mpixels/sec 27200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1408 1280
Texture Mapping Units 88 80
Render Output Units 32 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 2640 million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high 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 texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics 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 most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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Radeon HD 6950

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Radeon R9 M290X

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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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