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Radeon HD 6950 2GB vs Radeon R9 380X

Intro

The Radeon HD 6950 2GB comes with core speeds of 800 MHz on the GPU, and 1250 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1408 SPUs as well as 88 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

Compare that to the Radeon R9 380X, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 970 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a frequency of 1425 MHz on this model. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 380X 190 Watts
Radeon HD 6950 2GB 200 Watts
Difference: 10 Watts (5%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 380X should be just a bit faster than the Radeon HD 6950 2GB overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 380X 182400 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6950 2GB 160000 MB/sec
Difference: 22400 (14%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 380X should be a lot (more or less 76%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 6950 2GB. (explain)

Radeon R9 380X 124160 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6950 2GB 70400 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 53760 (76%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 380X is quite a bit (approximately 21%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon HD 6950 2GB, and should be capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon R9 380X 31040 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6950 2GB 25600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 5440 (21%)

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 R9 380X
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year December 2010 November 2015
Code Name Cayman Pro Tonga XT
Memory 2048 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 800 MHz 970 MHz
Memory Speed 5000 MHz 5700 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 200 watts 190 watts
Bandwidth 160000 MB/sec 182400 MB/sec
Texel Rate 70400 Mtexels/sec 124160 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 25600 Mpixels/sec 31040 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1408 2048
Texture Mapping Units 88 128
Render Output Units 32 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 2640 million 5000 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better 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 processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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