GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon HD 6950

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 6950, which comes with a clock speed of 800 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1250 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 40 nm design. It is made up of 1408 SPUs, 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 1060		12359 points
Radeon HD 6950		3240 points
	Difference: 9119 (281%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
Radeon HD 6950		200 Watts
	Difference: 80 Watts (67%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 1060 should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon HD 6950 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6950		160000 MB/sec
	Difference: 36608 (23%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 will be quite a bit (about 71%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 6950. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6950		70400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 50080 (71%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 will be a lot (approximately 182%) better at FSAA than the Radeon HD 6950, and also will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6950		25600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 46688 (182%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better 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 can be processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the 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 card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.