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Radeon HD 6950 2GB vs Radeon R7 370 2G

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The Radeon HD 6950 2GB has a clock frequency of 800 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1250 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It is made up of 1408 SPUs, 88 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 370 2G, which features a clock speed of 975 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1400 MHz. It also features a 256-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is made up of 1024 SPUs, 64 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 2G 110 Watts
Radeon HD 6950 2GB 200 Watts
Difference: 90 Watts (82%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R7 370 2G should theoretically perform a bit faster than the Radeon HD 6950 2GB in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G 179200 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6950 2GB 160000 MB/sec
Difference: 19200 (12%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 6950 2GB should be a little bit (about 13%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R7 370 2G. (explain)

Radeon HD 6950 2GB 70400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G 62400 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 8000 (13%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 2G will be quite a bit (more or less 22%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon HD 6950 2GB, and should be able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G 31200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6950 2GB 25600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 5600 (22%)

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 2GB Radeon R7 370 2G
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year December 2010 June 2015
Code Name Cayman Pro Trinidad
Memory 2048 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 800 MHz 975 MHz
Memory Speed 5000 MHz 5600 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 200 watts 110 watts
Bandwidth 160000 MB/sec 179200 MB/sec
Texel Rate 70400 Mtexels/sec 62400 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 25600 Mpixels/sec 31200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1408 1024
Texture Mapping Units 88 64
Render Output Units 32 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 2640 million 2080 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 max amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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Radeon HD 6950 2GB

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Radeon R7 370 2G

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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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