Radeon HD 6950 vs GeForce GTX 760 OEM

Radeon HD 6950
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 14 Dec 2010
Radeon HD 6950
GeForce GTX 760 OEM
Memory: 1536Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Jun 2013
GeForce GTX 760 OEM
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Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 6950
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 760 OEM
    150%

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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

70 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.
Around 50% higher average synthetic performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 760 OEM

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 760 OEM

The GeForce GTX 760 OEM is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 6950GeForce GTX 760 OEM
GPU NameCayman (Cayman PRO)vsGK104 ()
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size389 mm²vs294 mm²
Transistors2,640 millionvs3,540 million
Shaders1408vs1152
Compute Units22vs6
Core clock800 MHzvs823 MHz
ROPs32vs24
TMUs88vs96

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 6950GeForce GTX 760 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
vs1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1536 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 6950GeForce GTX 760 OEM
TDP200 wattsvs130 watts
Release Date14 Dec 2010vs27 Jun 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6950
    25.60 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 760 OEM
    19.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6950
    70.40 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 760 OEM
    79.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 6950
    160.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 760 OEM
    134.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 6950
    2253.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 760 OEM
    1896.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 6950
    5710
  • GeForce GTX 760 OEM
    8600

Points (higher is better)