GeForce GTX 950 vs Radeon HD 6990
Summary
GeForce GTX 950
100%
Radeon HD 6990
126%
Relative performance
GeForce GTX 950
100%
Radeon HD 6990
109%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 950 |
| 285 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 6990 . |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6990 |
| 9% higher gaming performance. |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 6990
The Radeon HD 6990 is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (1 combinations of games and resolutions).
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 950 | | Radeon HD 6990 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GM206 (GM206-250-A1) | vs | Antilles (Antilles XT) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 228 mm² | vs | 389 mm² |
| Transistors | 2,940 million | vs | 2,640 million |
| Shaders | 768 | vs | 1536 |
| Compute Units | 6 | vs | 24 |
| Core clock | 1024 MHz | vs | 830 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 48 | vs | 96 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 950 | | Radeon HD 6990 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 256 bit x2 |
| Memory Speed | 1653 MHz
6612 MHz effective | vs | 1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 950 | | Radeon HD 6990 | |
|---|
| TDP | 90 watts | vs | 375 watts |
| Release Date | 20 Aug 2015 | vs | 8 Mar 2011 |
GeForce GTX 950
32.80 GP/s
Radeon HD 6990
26.60 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 950
49.20 GT/s
Radeon HD 6990
79.70 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 950
105.80 GB/s
Radeon HD 6990
160.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 950
1572.90 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 6990
2550.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
GeForce GTX 950
8490
Radeon HD 6990
10720
Points (higher is better)
DX11, Ultra, DDOD, FXAA
GeForce GTX 950
41
Radeon HD 6990
45
FPS (higher is better)