AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs ATI Radeon X1650 PRO

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6950 and ATI Radeon X1650 PRO videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6950

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • 29.3x more texture fill rate: 70.4 GTexel / s vs 2.4 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 80 nm
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 256 MB
  • 30.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2611 vs 85
  • Around 83% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 441 vs 241
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 14 December 2010 vs 23 August 2006
Texture fill rate 70.4 GTexel / s vs 2.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 80 nm
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 256 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 2611 vs 85
PassMark - G2D Mark 441 vs 241

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X1650 PRO

  • 11.4x lower typical power consumption: 44 Watt vs 500 Watt
  • Around 12% higher memory clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 1250 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 44 Watt vs 500 Watt
Memory clock speed 1400 MHz vs 1250 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6950
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X1650 PRO

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
2611
85
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
441
241
Name AMD Radeon HD 6950 ATI Radeon X1650 PRO
PassMark - G3D Mark 2611 85
PassMark - G2D Mark 441 241
Geekbench - OpenCL 6105
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 16.999
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 899.056
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.659
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 49.698
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 251.203
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 3652
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2523
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 11657
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 3652
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2523
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 11657
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 6950 ATI Radeon X1650 PRO

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 3 R500
Code name Cayman RV535
Design AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
Launch date 14 December 2010 23 August 2006
Launch price (MSRP) $299
Place in performance rating 713 715
Price now $89.99
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 45.34

Technical info

Boost clock speed 800 MHz
Floating-point performance 2,252.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 80 nm
Pipelines 1408
Texture fill rate 70.4 GTexel / s 2.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 500 Watt 44 Watt
Transistor count 2,640 million 330 million
Core clock speed 600 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort 2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 267 mm
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pin None

API support

DirectX 11 9.0c
OpenGL 4.4 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 256 MB
Memory bus width 256 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1250 MHz 1400 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3
Memory bandwidth 22.4 GB / s

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire