GeForce GTX 580 vs Radeon HD 6950

GeForce GTX 580 Memory: 1536Mb GDDR5DESKTOP Release date: 9 Nov 2010

Radeon HD 6950 Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP Release date: 14 Dec 2010

Summary

Synthetic performance index

GeForce GTX 580
115%
Radeon HD 6950
100%

Relative performance

Gaming performance index

GeForce GTX 580
152%
Radeon HD 6950
100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 580

52% higher gaming performance.

Supports PhysX

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6950

44 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 580 .

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 580

The GeForce GTX 580 is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (2 combinations of games and resolutions).

Specifications

Core Configuration

	GeForce GTX 580		Radeon HD 6950
GPU Name	GF110 (GF110-375-A1)	vs	Cayman (Cayman PRO)
Fab Process	40 nm	vs	40 nm
Die Size	520 mmÂ²	vs	389 mmÂ²
Transistors	3,000 million	vs	2,640 million
Shaders	512	vs	1408
Compute Units	16	vs	22
Core clock	772 MHz	vs	800 MHz
ROPs	48	vs	32
TMUs	64	vs	88

Memory Configuration

	GeForce GTX 580		Radeon HD 6950
Memory Type	GDDR5	vs	GDDR5
Bus Width	384 bit	vs	256 bit
Memory Speed	1002 MHz 4008 MHz effective	vs	1250 MHz 5000 MHz effective
Memory Size	1536 Mb	vs	2048 Mb

Additional details

	GeForce GTX 580		Radeon HD 6950
TDP	244 watts	vs	200 watts
Release Date	9 Nov 2010	vs	14 Dec 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

GeForce GTX 580
24.70 GP/s
Radeon HD 6950
25.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

GeForce GTX 580
49.40 GT/s
Radeon HD 6950
70.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

GeForce GTX 580
192.00 GB/s
Radeon HD 6950
160.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

GeForce GTX 580
1581.00 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 6950
2253.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

GeForce GTX 580
6600
Radeon HD 6950
5710

Points (higher is better)

Game benchmarks

Crysis 3

DX11,Very High Quality, FXAA

GeForce GTX 580
27
Radeon HD 6950
18

FPS (higher is better)

Metro Last Light

DX11, AAA standard, 16xAF, Motion Blur normal, Tesselation normal

GeForce GTX 580
34
Radeon HD 6950
22