Radeon HD 6950 vs GeForce GTX 650 Ti

Radeon HD 6950
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 14 Dec 2010
Radeon HD 6950
GeForce GTX 650 Ti
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 9 Oct 2012
GeForce GTX 650 Ti

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 6950
    120%
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    100%

Relative performance

Gaming performance index

  • Radeon HD 6950
    130%
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6950

30% higher gaming performance.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 650 Ti

90 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 6950 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 game benchmark suite used (40 combinations of games and resolutions).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 6950GeForce GTX 650 Ti
GPU NameCayman (Cayman PRO)vsGK106 (GK106-220-A1)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size389 mm²vs221 mm²
Transistors2,640 millionvs2,540 million
Shaders1408vs768
Compute Units22vs4
Core clock800 MHzvs928 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs88vs64

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 6950GeForce GTX 650 Ti
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
vs1350 MHz
5400 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 6950GeForce GTX 650 Ti
TDP200 wattsvs110 watts
Release Date14 Dec 2010vs9 Oct 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6950
    25.60 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    14.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6950
    70.40 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    59.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 6950
    160.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    86.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 6950
    2253.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    1425.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 6950
    5710
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    4750

Points (higher is better)

Game benchmarks

Alan Wake

  • Radeon HD 6950
    50.8
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    34.6

FPS (higher is better)

Batman: Arkham City

  • Radeon HD 6950
    56.8
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    43.1

FPS (higher is better)

Battlefield 3

  • Radeon HD 6950
    35.9
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    31.5

FPS (higher is better)

Borderlands 2

  • Radeon HD 6950
    69.3
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    55.7

FPS (higher is better)

Crysis

  • Radeon HD 6950
    34.6
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    25.7

FPS (higher is better)

Crysis 2

  • Radeon HD 6950
    34.4
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    29.1

FPS (higher is better)

Crysis 3

DX11,Very High Quality, FXAA

  • Radeon HD 6950
    18
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    21

FPS (higher is better)

Diablo III

  • Radeon HD 6950
    100.6
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    76

FPS (higher is better)

Dragon Age II

  • Radeon HD 6950
    40.7
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    31.6

FPS (higher is better)

F1 2012

  • Radeon HD 6950
    58.7
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    46.5

FPS (higher is better)

Max Payne 3

  • Radeon HD 6950
    38.9
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    33.6

FPS (higher is better)

Medal Of Honor Warfighter

DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA

  • Radeon HD 6950
    28
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    25

FPS (higher is better)

Metro 2033

  • Radeon HD 6950
    21.3
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    13.7

FPS (higher is better)

Sleeping Dogs

  • Radeon HD 6950
    44.6
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    31.3

FPS (higher is better)

Sniper Elite V2

  • Radeon HD 6950
    45.3
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    28.5

FPS (higher is better)

STALKER: Call of Pripyat

  • Radeon HD 6950
    58.1
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    42.1

FPS (higher is better)

StarCraft II

  • Radeon HD 6950
    116.8
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    102.8

FPS (higher is better)

The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim

  • Radeon HD 6950
    54.2
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    38.5

FPS (higher is better)

Total War: Shogun 2

  • Radeon HD 6950
    31.6
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    28.1

FPS (higher is better)

Unigine Heaven 2.0

  • Radeon HD 6950
    28.7
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    30.2

FPS (higher is better)

World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria

  • Radeon HD 6950
    59.6
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    45.4

FPS (higher is better)

Alan Wake

  • Radeon HD 6950
    32.6
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    20.9

FPS (higher is better)

Batman: Arkham City

  • Radeon HD 6950
    36.3
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    25

FPS (higher is better)

Battlefield 3

  • Radeon HD 6950
    22.3
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    18.6

FPS (higher is better)

Borderlands 2

  • Radeon HD 6950
    43.8
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    33.3

FPS (higher is better)

Crysis

  • Radeon HD 6950
    21.1
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    15.2

FPS (higher is better)

Crysis 2

  • Radeon HD 6950
    20.9
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    16.3

FPS (higher is better)

Diablo III

  • Radeon HD 6950
    72
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    52.2

FPS (higher is better)

Dragon Age II

  • Radeon HD 6950
    28.5
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    20.3

FPS (higher is better)

F1 2012

  • Radeon HD 6950
    41.9
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    32.6

FPS (higher is better)

Max Payne 3

  • Radeon HD 6950
    27
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    22

FPS (higher is better)

Metro 2033

  • Radeon HD 6950
    14.5
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    10.6

FPS (higher is better)

Sleeping Dogs

  • Radeon HD 6950
    27.7
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    17.3

FPS (higher is better)

Sniper Elite V2

  • Radeon HD 6950
    30.4
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    17.8

FPS (higher is better)

STALKER: Call of Pripyat

  • Radeon HD 6950
    37.5
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    25.9

FPS (higher is better)

StarCraft II

  • Radeon HD 6950
    91.4
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    68.1

FPS (higher is better)

The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim

  • Radeon HD 6950
    29.5
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    23.7

FPS (higher is better)

Total War: Shogun 2

  • Radeon HD 6950
    19.1
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    16.3

FPS (higher is better)

Unigine Heaven 2.0

  • Radeon HD 6950
    19.7
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    19.4

FPS (higher is better)

World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria

  • Radeon HD 6950
    41.6
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    30.8

FPS (higher is better)