Graphics card comparison
Radeon HD 6950 vs Radeon R7 360
AMD
Radeon HD 6950
2048 Mb GDDR5
Released 14 Dec 2010
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VS
AMD
Radeon R7 360
2048 Mb GDDR5
Released 18 Jun 2015
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Summary
Synthetic performance index
- Radeon HD 6950100%
- Radeon R7 360112%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider the Radeon HD 6950
- Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
Reasons to consider the Radeon R7 360
- 100 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.
- Around 12% higher average synthetic performance.
- 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- Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
Our verdict
HWSpot recommends the Radeon R7 360
The Radeon R7 360 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Specifications
Core configuration
| Radeon HD 6950 | Radeon R7 360 |
|---|
| GPU Name | Cayman (Cayman PRO) | Tobago (Tobago PRO) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 389 mm² | 160 mm² |
| Transistors | 2,640 million | 2,080 million |
| Shaders | 1408 | 768 |
| Compute Units | 22 | 12 |
| Core clock | 800 MHz | 1050 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | 16 |
| TMUs | 88 | 48 |
Memory configuration
| Radeon HD 6950 | Radeon R7 360 |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective | 1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 6950 | Radeon R7 360 |
|---|
| TDP | 200 watts | 100 watts |
| Release Date | 14 Dec 2010 | 18 Jun 2015 |
Raw performance comparison
Pixel Rate
- Radeon HD 695025.60 GP/s
- Radeon R7 36016.80 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Texel Rate
- Radeon HD 695070.40 GT/s
- Radeon R7 36050.40 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Memory bandwidth
- Radeon HD 6950160.00 GB/s
- Radeon R7 36096.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Single precision performance
- Radeon HD 69502253.00 GFLOPs
- Radeon R7 3601612.80 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
Synthetic benchmarks
3DMark 11
- Radeon HD 69505710
- Radeon R7 3606400
Points (higher is better)