Radeon HD 5850 vs Radeon HD 6950
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5850 |
| 49 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 6950 . |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6950 |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 6950
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 5850 | | Radeon HD 6950 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Cypress (Cypress PRO) | vs | Cayman (Cayman PRO) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 334 mm² | vs | 389 mm² |
| Transistors | 2,154 million | vs | 2,640 million |
| Shaders | 1440 | vs | 1408 |
| Compute Units | 18 | vs | 22 |
| Core clock | 725 MHz | vs | 800 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 72 | vs | 88 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 5850 | | Radeon HD 6950 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective | vs | 1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 5850 | | Radeon HD 6950 | |
|---|
| TDP | 151 watts | vs | 200 watts |
| Release Date | 30 Sep 2009 | vs | 14 Dec 2010 |
Radeon HD 5850
23.20 GP/s
Radeon HD 6950
25.60 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 5850
52.20 GT/s
Radeon HD 6950
70.40 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 5850
128.00 GB/s
Radeon HD 6950
160.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 5850
2088.00 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 6950
2253.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better