Radeon HD 6950 vs Radeon HD 6770

Radeon HD 6950
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 14 Dec 2010
Radeon HD 6950
Radeon HD 6770
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Jan 2011
Radeon HD 6770

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 6950
    223%
  • Radeon HD 6770
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6950

Around 123% higher average synthetic performance.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6770

92 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 6950 .
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 6950Radeon HD 6770
GPU NameCayman (Cayman PRO)vsJuniper (Juniper XT)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size389 mm²vs166 mm²
Transistors2,640 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders1408vs800
Compute Units22vs10
Core clock800 MHzvs850 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs88vs40

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 6950Radeon HD 6770
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
vs1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 6950Radeon HD 6770
TDP200 wattsvs108 watts
Release Date14 Dec 2010vs21 Jan 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6950
    25.60 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6770
    13.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6950
    70.40 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6770
    34.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 6950
    160.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6770
    76.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 6950
    2253.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6770
    1360.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 6950
    5710
  • Radeon HD 6770
    2550

Points (higher is better)