Geforce GTX 760 vs Radeon HD 6950

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 6950, which comes with core clock speeds of 800 MHz on the GPU, and 1250 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1408 SPUs along with 88 Texture Address Units 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

Geforce GTX 760		5923 points
Radeon HD 6950		3240 points
	Difference: 2683 (83%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Geforce GTX 760		170 Watts
Radeon HD 6950		200 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (18%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Geforce GTX 760 should in theory perform a bit faster than the Radeon HD 6950 overall. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		192256 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6950		160000 MB/sec
	Difference: 32256 (20%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 760 should be a lot (approximately 34%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 6950. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		94080 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6950		70400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 23680 (34%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 760 is the winner, by far. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		31360 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6950		25600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 5760 (23%)

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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also 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 memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.