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Radeon HD 6950 vs Radeon R7 M360
Intro
The Radeon HD 6950 comes with a clock frequency of 800 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1250 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It features 1408 SPUs, 88 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.Compare all that to the Radeon R7 M360, which comes with GPU core speed of 1125 MHz, and 2048 MB of DDR3 RAM set to run at 1000 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also features 384 Stream Processors, 24 TAUs, and 8 ROPs.
Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks
Memory Bandwidth
Performance-wise, the Radeon HD 6950 should theoretically be a lot better than the Radeon R7 M360 overall. (explain)
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160000 MB/sec |
| Radeon R7 M360 |
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16000 MB/sec |
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Texel Rate
The Radeon HD 6950 will be a lot (about 161%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R7 M360. (explain)| Radeon HD 6950 |
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70400 Mtexels/sec |
| Radeon R7 M360 |
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27000 Mtexels/sec |
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Pixel Rate
The Radeon HD 6950 should be quite a bit (about 184%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 M360, and able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)| Radeon HD 6950 |
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25600 Mpixels/sec |
| Radeon R7 M360 |
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9000 Mpixels/sec |
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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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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.
Specifications
| Model | Radeon HD 6950 | Radeon R7 M360 |
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| Manufacturer | AMD | AMD |
| Year | December 2010 | 2015 |
| Code Name | Cayman Pro | Oland |
| Memory | 1024 MB | 2048 MB |
| Core Speed | 800 MHz | 1125 MHz |
| Memory Speed | 5000 MHz | 2000 MHz |
| Power (Max TDP) | 200 watts | (Unknown) watts |
| Bandwidth | 160000 MB/sec | 16000 MB/sec |
| Texel Rate | 70400 Mtexels/sec | 27000 Mtexels/sec |
| Pixel Rate | 25600 Mpixels/sec | 9000 Mpixels/sec |
| Unified Shaders | 1408 | 384 |
| Texture Mapping Units | 88 | 24 |
| Render Output Units | 32 | 8 |
| Bus Type | GDDR5 | DDR3 |
| Bus Width | 256-bit | 64-bit |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | 28 nm |
| Transistors | 2640 million | (Unknown) million |
| Bus | PCIe x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| DirectX Version | DirectX 11 | DirectX 12 |
| OpenGL Version | OpenGL 4.1 | OpenGL 4.3 |
Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.
Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the 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 amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel 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.
Radeon HD 6950Amazon.com
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Radeon R7 M360Amazon.com
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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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