AMD Radeon HD 6950 1 GB Review 41

AMD Radeon HD 6950 1 GB Review

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AMD recently released their Radeon HD 6900 Series which delivers high-end 3D performance based around the new Cayman GPU. The new Series boasts improvements in power consumption while increasing performance over last generation. Most noteworthy, however, is the possibility to unlock a Radeon HD 6950 into a HD 6970 by a simple BIOS flash.

With the Radeon HD 6950 1 GB AMD introduces a new HD 6950 variant that is more cost effective than the 2 GB version. The price difference is about $40, just for 1 GB less memory, all other specs have remained the same. So the big question is: Will the reduced memory size affect performance?

Radeon
HD 6850
Radeon
HD 5850
GeForce
GTX 470
Radeon
HD 6870
Radeon
HD 5870
Radeon
HD 6950
Radeon
HD 6950 1 GB
GeForce
GTX 570
GeForce
GTX 480
Radeon
HD 6970
GeForce
GTX 580
Shader units 960144044811201600140814084804801536512
ROPs3232403232323240483248
GPUBartsCypressGF100BartsCypressCaymanCaymanGF110GF100CaymanGF110
Transistors1700M2154M3200M1700M2154M2640M2640M3000M3200M2640M3000M
Memory Size1024 MB1024 MB1280 MB1024 MB1024 MB2048 MB1024 MB1280 MB1536 MB2048 MB1536 MB
Memory Bus Width 256 bit 256 bit 320 bit 256 bit 256 bit 256 bit 256 bit 320 bit 384 bit 256 bit 384 bit
Core Clock775 MHz 725 MHz 607 MHz 900 MHz 850 MHz 800 MHz 800 MHz 732 MHz 700 MHz 880 MHz 772 MHz
Memory Clock1000 MHz 1000 MHz 837 MHz 1050 MHz 1200 MHz 1250 MHz 1250 MHz 950 MHz 924 MHz 1375 MHz 1002 MHz
Price$180$260$260$240$360$275$235$330$450$370$500
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