GeForce GTX 1070 vs Radeon HD 6950
Summary
GeForce GTX 1070
432%
Radeon HD 6950
100%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1070 |
| 50 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 332% higher average synthetic performance. |
| Supports PhysX |
| Supports G-Sync |
| Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6950 |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1070
The GeForce GTX 1070 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 1070 | | Radeon HD 6950 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GP104 (GP104-200-A1) | vs | Cayman (Cayman PRO) |
| Fab Process | 16 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 314 mm² | vs | 389 mm² |
| Transistors | 7,200 million | vs | 2,640 million |
| Shaders | 1920 | vs | 1408 |
| Compute Units | 15 | vs | 22 |
| Core clock | 1506 MHz | vs | 800 MHz |
| ROPs | 64 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 120 | vs | 88 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 1070 | | Radeon HD 6950 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective | vs | 1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 8192 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 1070 | | Radeon HD 6950 | |
|---|
| TDP | 150 watts | vs | 200 watts |
| Release Date | 10 Jun 2016 | vs | 14 Dec 2010 |
GeForce GTX 1070
96.40 GP/s
Radeon HD 6950
25.60 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 1070
180.70 GT/s
Radeon HD 6950
70.40 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 1070
256.30 GB/s
Radeon HD 6950
160.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 1070
5783.00 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 6950
2253.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
GeForce GTX 1070
24720
Radeon HD 6950
5710
Points (higher is better)