Radeon HD 6970 vs GeForce GTX 650 Ti
Summary
Radeon HD 6970
126%
GeForce GTX 650 Ti
100%
Relative performance
Radeon HD 6970
150%
GeForce GTX 650 Ti
100%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6970 |
| 50% higher gaming performance. |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 650 Ti |
| 140 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 6970 . |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Supports PhysX |
| Supports G-Sync |
| Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 6970
The Radeon HD 6970 is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (40 combinations of games and resolutions).
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 6970 | | GeForce GTX 650 Ti | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Cayman (Cayman XT) | vs | GK106 (GK106-220-A1) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 389 mm² | vs | 221 mm² |
| Transistors | 2,640 million | vs | 2,540 million |
| Shaders | 1536 | vs | 768 |
| Compute Units | 24 | vs | 4 |
| Core clock | 880 MHz | vs | 928 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 16 |
| TMUs | 96 | vs | 64 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 6970 | | GeForce GTX 650 Ti | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1375 MHz
5500 MHz effective | vs | 1350 MHz
5400 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 6970 | | GeForce GTX 650 Ti | |
|---|
| TDP | 250 watts | vs | 110 watts |
| Release Date | 14 Dec 2010 | vs | 9 Oct 2012 |
Radeon HD 6970
28.20 GP/s
GeForce GTX 650 Ti
14.80 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 6970
84.50 GT/s
GeForce GTX 650 Ti
59.40 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 6970
176.00 GB/s
GeForce GTX 650 Ti
86.40 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 6970
2703.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 650 Ti
1425.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
Radeon HD 6970
6000
GeForce GTX 650 Ti
4750
Points (higher is better)
Radeon HD 6970
57.8
GeForce GTX 650 Ti
34.6
FPS (higher is better)
Radeon HD 6970
65.6
GeForce GTX 650 Ti
43.1
FPS (higher is better)
Radeon HD 6970
40.6
GeForce GTX 650 Ti
31.5
FPS (higher is better)
Radeon HD 6970
78.9
GeForce GTX 650 Ti
55.7
FPS (higher is better)
Radeon HD 6970
38.9
GeForce GTX 650 Ti
25.7
FPS (higher is better)
Radeon HD 6970
38.8
GeForce GTX 650 Ti
29.1
FPS (higher is better)
DX11,Very High Quality, FXAA
Radeon HD 6970
23
GeForce GTX 650 Ti
21
FPS (higher is better)
Radeon HD 6970
113.3
GeForce GTX 650 Ti
76
FPS (higher is better)
Radeon HD 6970
47.3
GeForce GTX 650 Ti
31.6
FPS (higher is better)
Radeon HD 6970
66.4
GeForce GTX 650 Ti
46.5
FPS (higher is better)
Radeon HD 6970
44.2
GeForce GTX 650 Ti
33.6
FPS (higher is better)
DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA
Radeon HD 6970
31
GeForce GTX 650 Ti
25
FPS (higher is better)
Radeon HD 6970
23.4
GeForce GTX 650 Ti
13.7
FPS (higher is better)
Radeon HD 6970
51.9
GeForce GTX 650 Ti
31.3
FPS (higher is better)
Radeon HD 6970
52.2
GeForce GTX 650 Ti
28.5
FPS (higher is better)
Radeon HD 6970
66.3
GeForce GTX 650 Ti
42.1
FPS (higher is better)
Radeon HD 6970
138
GeForce GTX 650 Ti
102.8
FPS (higher is better)
Radeon HD 6970
51.3
GeForce GTX 650 Ti
38.5
FPS (higher is better)
Radeon HD 6970
36.6
GeForce GTX 650 Ti
28.1
FPS (higher is better)
Radeon HD 6970
33.8
GeForce GTX 650 Ti
30.2
FPS (higher is better)
Radeon HD 6970
66.5
GeForce GTX 650 Ti
45.4
FPS (higher is better)
Radeon HD 6970
37.1
GeForce GTX 650 Ti
20.9
FPS (higher is better)
Radeon HD 6970
41
GeForce GTX 650 Ti
25
FPS (higher is better)
Radeon HD 6970
25.5
GeForce GTX 650 Ti
18.6
FPS (higher is better)
Radeon HD 6970
50.9
GeForce GTX 650 Ti
33.3
FPS (higher is better)
Radeon HD 6970
24.2
GeForce GTX 650 Ti
15.2
FPS (higher is better)
Radeon HD 6970
23.5
GeForce GTX 650 Ti
16.3
FPS (higher is better)
Radeon HD 6970
82.1
GeForce GTX 650 Ti
52.2
FPS (higher is better)
Radeon HD 6970
32.9
GeForce GTX 650 Ti
20.3
FPS (higher is better)
Radeon HD 6970
47.6
GeForce GTX 650 Ti
32.6
FPS (higher is better)
Radeon HD 6970
30.6
GeForce GTX 650 Ti
22
FPS (higher is better)
Radeon HD 6970
16
GeForce GTX 650 Ti
10.6
FPS (higher is better)
Radeon HD 6970
31.8
GeForce GTX 650 Ti
17.3
FPS (higher is better)
Radeon HD 6970
35.1
GeForce GTX 650 Ti
17.8
FPS (higher is better)
Radeon HD 6970
43.2
GeForce GTX 650 Ti
25.9
FPS (higher is better)
Radeon HD 6970
108.7
GeForce GTX 650 Ti
68.1
FPS (higher is better)
Radeon HD 6970
44.4
GeForce GTX 650 Ti
23.7
FPS (higher is better)
Radeon HD 6970
21.9
GeForce GTX 650 Ti
16.3
FPS (higher is better)
Radeon HD 6970
22.3
GeForce GTX 650 Ti
19.4
FPS (higher is better)
Radeon HD 6970
47
GeForce GTX 650 Ti
30.8
FPS (higher is better)