Radeon HD 6950 vs GeForce GTX 980
Summary
Radeon HD 6950
100%
GeForce GTX 980
327%
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| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 980 |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Around 227% 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 980
The GeForce GTX 980 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 6950 | | GeForce GTX 980 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Cayman (Cayman PRO) | vs | GM204 (GM204-400-A1) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 389 mm² | vs | 398 mm² |
| Transistors | 2,640 million | vs | 5,200 million |
| Shaders | 1408 | vs | 2048 |
| Compute Units | 22 | vs | 16 |
| Core clock | 800 MHz | vs | 1127 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 64 |
| TMUs | 88 | vs | 128 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 6950 | | GeForce GTX 980 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective | vs | 1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 4096 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 6950 | | GeForce GTX 980 | |
|---|
| TDP | 200 watts | vs | 165 watts |
| Release Date | 14 Dec 2010 | vs | 19 Sep 2014 |
Radeon HD 6950
25.60 GP/s
GeForce GTX 980
72.10 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 6950
70.40 GT/s
GeForce GTX 980
144.30 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 6950
160.00 GB/s
GeForce GTX 980
224.40 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 6950
2253.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 980
4616.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
Radeon HD 6950
5710
GeForce GTX 980
18720
Points (higher is better)