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Radeon HD 6950 2GB vs Radeon HD 6970
IntroThe Radeon HD 6950 2GB uses a 40 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 800 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1250 MHz on this specific card. It features 1408 SPUs along with 88 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.Compare all that to the Radeon HD 6970, which comes with a clock frequency of 880 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1375 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It features 1536 SPUs, 96 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.
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Power Usage and Theoretical BenchmarksPower Consumption (Max TDP)
Memory BandwidthIn theory, the Radeon HD 6970 is 10% quicker than the Radeon HD 6950 2GB overall, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)
Texel RateThe Radeon HD 6970 is a little bit (more or less 20%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 6950 2GB. (explain)
Pixel RateIf using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon HD 6970 is superior to the Radeon HD 6950 2GB, though only just barely. (explain)
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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Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions. Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second. Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines 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 also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.
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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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5 Responses to “Radeon HD 6950 2GB vs Radeon HD 6970”Could you compare HD6950 2GB with HD6970 mod to the factory HD6970?
JD it would be the same.
If the 6950 was flashed bios to 6970 will it give the same fps and same performance ?
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@swiftymicvey .. No it won't perform as good as a stock 6970, as its behind on the TMU's, core & memory clocks. Unless any of the folk talking up the 6950 can magically bump the TMU's and simultaneously bump the core & memory on a 6950 to the same level, it will still be behind overall in benchmarks and in real-time, 3D gaming performance. No amount of wishful thinking will change that.