Radeon HD 6950 vs Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6950 |
| 49% higher gaming performance. |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition |
| 120 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. |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports Mantle |
| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 6950
The Radeon HD 6950 is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (40 combinations of games and resolutions).
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 6950 | | Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Cayman (Cayman PRO) | vs | Cape Verde (Cape Verde XT) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 389 mm² | vs | 123 mm² |
| Transistors | 2,640 million | vs | 1,500 million |
| Shaders | 1408 | vs | 640 |
| Compute Units | 22 | vs | 10 |
| Core clock | 800 MHz | vs | 1000 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 16 |
| TMUs | 88 | vs | 40 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 6950 | | Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective | vs | 1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 6950 | | Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition | |
|---|
| TDP | 200 watts | vs | 80 watts |
| Release Date | 14 Dec 2010 | vs | 15 Feb 2012 |
GigaPixels - higher is better
GigaTexels - higher is better
GFLOPs - higher is better
Points (higher is better)
DX11,Very High Quality, FXAA
FPS (higher is better)
DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA
FPS (higher is better)