Radeon HD 6950 vs GeForce GTX 950

Radeon HD 6950
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 14 Dec 2010
Radeon HD 6950
GeForce GTX 950
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 20 Aug 2015
GeForce GTX 950

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 6950
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 950
    148%

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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 950

110 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 48% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 950

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 950

The GeForce GTX 950 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 6950GeForce GTX 950
GPU NameCayman (Cayman PRO)vsGM206 (GM206-250-A1)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size389 mm²vs228 mm²
Transistors2,640 millionvs2,940 million
Shaders1408vs768
Compute Units22vs6
Core clock800 MHzvs1024 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs88vs48

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 6950GeForce GTX 950
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
vs1653 MHz
6612 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 6950GeForce GTX 950
TDP200 wattsvs90 watts
Release Date14 Dec 2010vs20 Aug 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6950
    25.60 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 950
    32.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6950
    70.40 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 950
    49.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 6950
    160.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 950
    105.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 6950
    2253.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 950
    1572.90 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 6950
    5710
  • GeForce GTX 950
    8490

Points (higher is better)