Radeon HD 6950 vs Radeon R7 360
Summary
Radeon HD 6950
100%
Radeon R7 360
112%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6950 |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon R7 360 |
| 100 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 6950 . |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Around 12% higher average synthetic performance. |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Supports FreeSync |
| Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports TrueAudio |
| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon R7 360
The Radeon R7 360 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 6950 | | Radeon R7 360 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Cayman (Cayman PRO) | vs | Tobago (Tobago PRO) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 389 mm² | vs | 160 mm² |
| Transistors | 2,640 million | vs | 2,080 million |
| Shaders | 1408 | vs | 768 |
| Compute Units | 22 | vs | 12 |
| Core clock | 800 MHz | vs | 1050 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 16 |
| TMUs | 88 | vs | 48 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 6950 | | Radeon R7 360 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective | vs | 1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 6950 | | Radeon R7 360 | |
|---|
| TDP | 200 watts | vs | 100 watts |
| Release Date | 14 Dec 2010 | vs | 18 Jun 2015 |
Radeon HD 6950
25.60 GP/s
Radeon R7 360
16.80 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 6950
70.40 GT/s
Radeon R7 360
50.40 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 6950
160.00 GB/s
Radeon R7 360
96.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 6950
2253.00 GFLOPs
Radeon R7 360
1612.80 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
Radeon HD 6950
5710
Radeon R7 360
6400
Points (higher is better)