AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs ATI Radeon X550 XTX

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6950 and ATI Radeon X550 XTX 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 3 year(s) 10 month(s) later
  • 22x more texture fill rate: 70.4 GTexel / s vs 3.2 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 110 nm
  • 16x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 128 MB
  • 2.1x more memory clock speed: 1250 MHz vs 600 MHz
  • 36.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2605 vs 71
  • Around 83% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 440 vs 240
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 14 December 2010 vs 24 January 2007
Texture fill rate 70.4 GTexel / s vs 3.2 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed 1250 MHz vs 600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 2605 vs 71
PassMark - G2D Mark 440 vs 240

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6950
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X550 XTX

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
2605
71
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
440
240
Name AMD Radeon HD 6950 ATI Radeon X550 XTX
PassMark - G3D Mark 2605 71
PassMark - G2D Mark 440 240
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 X550 XTX

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 3 R400
Code name Cayman RV410
Design AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
Launch date 14 December 2010 24 January 2007
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 110 nm
Pipelines 1408
Texture fill rate 70.4 GTexel / s 3.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 500 Watt
Transistor count 2,640 million 120 million
Core clock speed 400 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 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 9.0b
OpenGL 4.4 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 128 MB
Memory bus width 256 Bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 1250 MHz 600 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR
Memory bandwidth 4.8 GB / s

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire