AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT AGP

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AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 X2 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 7950 GT AGP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT AGP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 254W)

Score

Radeon HD 6850 X2

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GeForce 7950 GT AGP

Graphics Card

Sep 2011

Release Date

Apr 2007

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 7 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

-

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

-

48

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.000 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.00 GTexel/s

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

Board Design

254W

TDP

65W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x Molex

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

G71

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

G71-GT2-H-N-A2

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

90 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.278 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

196 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.4

OpenGL

2.1

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

3.0

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