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Graphics card overview

Radeon HD 6950

AMD

Radeon HD 6950

2048 Mb GDDR5 Released 14 Dec 2010 DESKTOP
Radeon HD 6950

Core configuration

GPUCayman
ArchitectureATI_TeraScale
Shaders : TMUs : ROPs1408 : 88 : 32
Raytracing Coresnone
Performance2253.00 GFLOPs

Memory configuration

Memory Size2048 Mb
Memory Bus Width256 bit
Memory Speed1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
Memory Bandwidth160.00 Gb/s

Summary

Relative performance

Performance summary, based on benchmarks charts.

The Radeon HD 6950 is a graphics card released by AMD on 14 Dec 2010. The graphics card houses the Cayman die, based on the ATI_TeraScale architecture which packs 2,640 million transistors on a 40 nm, 389 mm² die.

Radeon HD 6950 pros and cons

  • Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Specifications

Compared to similar performing cards
Radeon HD 6950 Radeon HD 6950 GeForce GTX 750 GeForce GTX 750 Compare Radeon R7 260X Radeon R7 260X Compare Radeon HD 7790 Radeon HD 7790 Compare GeForce GTX 650 Ti GeForce GTX 650 Ti Compare
Shader units 1408 512 896 896 768
ROPs 32 16 16 16 16
Graphics processor Cayman GM107 Bonaire Bonaire GK106
Process size 40 nm 28 nm 28 nm 28 nm 28 nm
Memory 2048 Mb GDDR5 (1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective)		 1024 Mb GDDR5 (1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective)		 2048 Mb GDDR5 (1625 MHz
6500 MHz effective)		 1024 Mb GDDR5 (1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective)		 1024 Mb GDDR5 (1350 MHz
5400 MHz effective)
Memory bus width 256 bit 128 bit 128 bit 128 bit 128 bit
Memory bandwidth 160.00 Gb/s 80.20 Gb/s 104.00 Gb/s 96.00 Gb/s 86.40 Gb/s
Release date 14 Dec 2010 18 Feb 2014 8 Oct 2013 22 Mar 2013 9 Oct 2012

Benchmarks

Medal Of Honor Warfighter

  • GeForce GTX 750 32
  • Radeon HD 7790 30
  • Radeon R7 260X 29
  • Radeon HD 6950 28
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti 25

FPS (higher is better)

Battlefield 4

  • Radeon HD 7790 33
  • Radeon R7 260X 33
  • GeForce GTX 750 32
  • Radeon HD 6950 29

FPS (higher is better)

Metro Last Light

  • Radeon R7 260X 26
  • GeForce GTX 750 25
  • Radeon HD 7790 25
  • Radeon HD 6950 22

FPS (higher is better)

Crysis 3

  • Radeon R7 260X 23
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti 21
  • Radeon HD 7790 21
  • GeForce GTX 750 21
  • Radeon HD 6950 18

FPS (higher is better)