Radeon HD 6950 vs Radeon HD 7790
Summary
Radeon HD 6950
100%
Radeon HD 7790
107%
Relative performance
Radeon HD 6950
100%
Radeon HD 7790
112%
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| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 Radeon HD 7790 |
| 12% higher gaming performance. |
| 115 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 FreeSync |
| Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports TrueAudio |
| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7790
The Radeon HD 7790 is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (4 combinations of games and resolutions).
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 6950 | | Radeon HD 7790 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Cayman (Cayman PRO) | vs | Bonaire (Bonaire XT) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 389 mm² | vs | 160 mm² |
| Transistors | 2,640 million | vs | 2,080 million |
| Shaders | 1408 | vs | 896 |
| Compute Units | 22 | vs | 14 |
| Core clock | 800 MHz | vs | 1000 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 16 |
| TMUs | 88 | vs | 56 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 6950 | | Radeon HD 7790 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective | vs | 1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 6950 | | Radeon HD 7790 | |
|---|
| TDP | 200 watts | vs | 85 watts |
| Release Date | 14 Dec 2010 | vs | 22 Mar 2013 |
Radeon HD 6950
25.60 GP/s
Radeon HD 7790
16.00 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 6950
70.40 GT/s
Radeon HD 7790
56.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 6950
160.00 GB/s
Radeon HD 7790
96.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 6950
2253.00 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 7790
1792.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
Radeon HD 6950
5710
Radeon HD 7790
6110
Points (higher is better)
DX11, Ultra Quality,2x MSAA,16x AF, HBAO
Radeon HD 6950
29
Radeon HD 7790
33
FPS (higher is better)
DX11,Very High Quality, FXAA
Radeon HD 6950
18
Radeon HD 7790
21
FPS (higher is better)
DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA
Radeon HD 6950
28
Radeon HD 7790
30
FPS (higher is better)
DX11, AAA standard, 16xAF, Motion Blur normal, Tesselation normal
Radeon HD 6950
22
Radeon HD 7790
25
FPS (higher is better)