Radeon HD 6950 vs GeForce GTX 760
Summary
Radeon HD 6950
100%
GeForce GTX 760
150%
Relative performance
Radeon HD 6950
100%
GeForce GTX 760
195%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6950 |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 760 |
| 95% higher gaming performance. |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 760
The GeForce GTX 760 is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (4 combinations of games and resolutions).
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 6950 | | GeForce GTX 760 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Cayman (Cayman PRO) | vs | GK104 (GK104-225-A2) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 389 mm² | vs | 294 mm² |
| Transistors | 2,640 million | vs | 3,540 million |
| Shaders | 1408 | vs | 1152 |
| Compute Units | 22 | vs | 6 |
| Core clock | 800 MHz | vs | 980 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 88 | vs | 96 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 6950 | | GeForce GTX 760 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective | vs | 1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 6950 | | GeForce GTX 760 | |
|---|
| TDP | 200 watts | vs | 170 watts |
| Release Date | 14 Dec 2010 | vs | 25 Jun 2013 |
Radeon HD 6950
25.60 GP/s
GeForce GTX 760
23.50 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 6950
70.40 GT/s
GeForce GTX 760
94.10 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 6950
160.00 GB/s
GeForce GTX 760
192.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 6950
2253.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 760
2258.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
Radeon HD 6950
5710
GeForce GTX 760
8600
Points (higher is better)
DX11, Ultra Quality,2x MSAA,16x AF, HBAO
Radeon HD 6950
29
GeForce GTX 760
54
FPS (higher is better)
DX11,Very High Quality, FXAA
Radeon HD 6950
18
GeForce GTX 760
39
FPS (higher is better)
DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA
Radeon HD 6950
28
GeForce GTX 760
54
FPS (higher is better)
DX11, AAA standard, 16xAF, Motion Blur normal, Tesselation normal
Radeon HD 6950
22
GeForce GTX 760
41
FPS (higher is better)