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Radeon HD 6950 vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

The Radeon HD 6950 features a core clock speed of 800 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1250 MHz. It also features a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 40 nm design. It features 1408 SPUs, 88 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 370 2G, which comes with a clock frequency of 975 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1400 MHz. It also features a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 1024 SPUs, 64 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 R7 370 2G 5582 points
Radeon HD 6950 3240 points
Difference: 2342 (72%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R7 370 2G should perform a little bit faster than the Radeon HD 6950 in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 6950 is a little bit (approximately 13%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 370 2G. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 2G is a lot (approximately 22%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon HD 6950, and should be able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G 31200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6950 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 Radeon R7 370 2G
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year December 2010 June 2015
Code Name Cayman Pro Trinidad
Memory 1024 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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved 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. In the case of DDR memory, it 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 higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of 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 rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.

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Radeon HD 6950

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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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