Radeon HD 6950 vs GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Radeon HD 6950
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 14 Dec 2010
Radeon HD 6950
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 15 Mar 2011
GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 6950
    229%
  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6950

Around 129% higher average synthetic performance.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 550 Ti

84 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 6950 .
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 6950

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 6950

The Radeon HD 6950 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 6950GeForce GTX 550 Ti
GPU NameCayman (Cayman PRO)vsGF116 (GF116-400-A1)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size389 mm²vs238 mm²
Transistors2,640 millionvs1,170 million
Shaders1408vs192
Compute Units22vs4
Core clock800 MHzvs900 MHz
ROPs32vs24
TMUs88vs32

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 6950GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
vs1026 MHz
4104 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 6950GeForce GTX 550 Ti
TDP200 wattsvs116 watts
Release Date14 Dec 2010vs15 Mar 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6950
    25.60 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    7.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6950
    70.40 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    28.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 6950
    160.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    98.50 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 6950
    2253.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    691.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 6950
    5710
  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    2490

Points (higher is better)