Radeon HD 6950 vs Radeon HD 7670 OEM

Radeon HD 6950
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 14 Dec 2010
Radeon HD 6950
Radeon HD 7670 OEM
Memory: 512Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Jan 2012
Radeon HD 7670 OEM

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 6950
    375%
  • Radeon HD 7670 OEM
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6950

Around 275% 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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 7670 OEM

134 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.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 7670 OEM
GPU NameCayman (Cayman PRO)vsTurks (Turks XT)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size389 mm²vs118 mm²
Transistors2,640 millionvs716 million
Shaders1408vs480
Compute Units22vs6
Core clock800 MHzvs800 MHz
ROPs32vs8
TMUs88vs24

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 6950Radeon HD 7670 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
vs1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 6950Radeon HD 7670 OEM
TDP200 wattsvs66 watts
Release Date14 Dec 2010vs5 Jan 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6950
    25.60 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7670 OEM
    6.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6950
    70.40 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7670 OEM
    19.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 6950
    160.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7670 OEM
    64.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 6950
    2253.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7670 OEM
    768.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 6950
    5710
  • Radeon HD 7670 OEM
    1520

Points (higher is better)