Radeon HD 6950 Overview

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

Core Configuration

GPU Cayman
Architecture ATI_TeraScale
Shaders : TMUs : ROPs 1408 : 88 : 32
Raytracing Cores none
Performance 2253.00 GFLOPs

Memory Configuration

Memory Size 2048 Mb
Memory Bus Width 256 bit
Memory Speed 1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
Memory Bandwidth 160.00 Gb/s

Summary

Relative performance

  • Radeon HD 7990
    400%
  • GeForce GTX 690
    360%
  • GeForce GTX 780 Ti
    325%
  • GeForce GTX TITAN
    310%
  • Radeon R9 290X
    305%
  • Radeon R9 290
    290%
  • GeForce GTX 780
    281%
  • GeForce GTX 590
    241%
  • GeForce GTX 770
    239%
  • Radeon R9 280X
    237%
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    233%
  • GeForce GTX 680
    223%
  • Radeon HD 6990
    221%
  • Radeon HD 7970
    215%
  • GeForce GTX 670
    206%
  • GeForce GTX 760
    195%
  • Radeon HD 7950 Boost
    185%
  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    178%
  • Radeon R9 270X
    177%
  • Radeon HD 7870 XT
    172%
  • Radeon HD 7950
    170%
  • Radeon R9 270
    164%
  • Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
    159%
  • GeForce GTX 580
    152%
  • GeForce GTX 660
    149%
  • Radeon R7 265
    145%
  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    131%
  • GeForce GTX 570
    130%
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
    129%
  • Radeon HD 7850
    129%
  • GeForce GTX 480
    128%
  • Radeon R7 260X
    115%
  • Radeon HD 6970
    115%
  • GeForce GTX 750
    113%
  • Radeon HD 7790
    112%
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    112%
  • GeForce GTX 470
    103%
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    102%
  • Radeon HD 6950
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 560
    96%
  • Radeon HD 6870
    87%
  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
    86%
  • Radeon HD 6850
    70%

Performance summary, based on benchmarks charts.

The Radeon HD 6950 is a graphics card released by AMD on 14 Dec 2010. The graphics card houses the Cayman die, based on the ATI_TeraScale architecture which packs 2,640 million transistors on a 40 nm, 389 mm2 die.

Radeon HD 6950 pros and cons

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications



Specifications


Compared to similar performing cards

Radeon HD 6950GeForce GTX 750Radeon R7 260XRadeon HD 7790GeForce GTX 650 Ti
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Shader units1408512896896768
ROPs3216161616
Graphics processorCaymanGM107BonaireBonaireGK106
Process size40 nm28 nm28 nm28 nm28 nm
Memory2048 Mb GDDR5 (1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective)
1024 Mb GDDR5 (1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective)
2048 Mb GDDR5 (1625 MHz
6500 MHz effective)
1024 Mb GDDR5 (1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective)
1024 Mb GDDR5 (1350 MHz
5400 MHz effective)
Memory bus width256 bit128 bit128 bit128 bit128 bit
Memory bandwidth160.00 Gb/s80.20 Gb/s104.00 Gb/s96.00 Gb/s86.40 Gb/s
Release date14 Dec 201018 Feb 20148 Oct 201322 Mar 20139 Oct 2012

Benchmarks

Medal Of Honor Warfighter

  • GeForce GTX 750
    32
  • Radeon HD 7790
    30
  • Radeon R7 260X
    29
  • Radeon HD 6950
    28
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    25

FPS (higher is better)

Battlefield 4

  • Radeon HD 7790
    33
  • Radeon R7 260X
    33
  • GeForce GTX 750
    32
  • Radeon HD 6950
    29

FPS (higher is better)

Metro Last Light

  • Radeon R7 260X
    26
  • GeForce GTX 750
    25
  • Radeon HD 7790
    25
  • Radeon HD 6950
    22

FPS (higher is better)

Crysis 3

  • Radeon R7 260X
    23
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    21
  • Radeon HD 7790
    21
  • GeForce GTX 750
    21
  • Radeon HD 6950
    18

FPS (higher is better)