ASUS EAH 6950 2GByte

Published by Marc Büchel on 19.12.10
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Technical data / specifications

The ASUS EAH 6950 has been built according to AMDs reference design which features a massive dual slot cooler and a back plate to cover and protect the cards PCB. From an architectural point of view the biggest changes have been made regarding the Shader units. For several generations AMD made use of 5D shaders. With the new Radeon HD 6950 and Radeon HD 6970 AMD implemented 4D shaders for the first time. The maximum theoretical performance inpact this could have is 20 percent. Furhtermore the HD 6950 is able to make use of a total of 1'440 shader units. If we look at the maximum board power, we see that compared to the Radeon HD 5850 the Radeon HD 6950 needs 30 Watts more on paper. In absolute numbers this means that the Radeon HD 6950 can draw a total of 200 Watt from the power supply. Regarding the idle power also the HD 6950 uses only 20 Watts which is industry leading at this time. New is, that AMD nowadays also provides a number regarding "typical gaming power". They claim that the card needs about 140 Watt on average when playing video games on your comptuer.

  ASUS EAH6950 ASUS EAH6850 ASUS EAH5870 GTX 580
Chip Cayman RV940 RV870 GF110
Process 40 nm 40 nm 40 nm 40 nm
Transistors 2.64 billion 1.7 billion 2.15 billion 3.0billion
GPU clock 820 MHz 790 MHz 850 MHz 772 MHz
Shader clock 820 MHz 790 MHz 850 MHz 1'544 MHz
Memory 2'048 MB GDDR5 1'024 MB GDDR5 1'024 MB GDDR5 1'536 MB GDDR5
Memory clock 2'500 MHz 1'000 MHz 1'200 MHz 1'002 MHz
Memory interface 256 Bit 256 Bit 256 Bit 384 Bit
Memory bandwidth 160'000 MB/s 128'000 MB/s 153'600 MB/s 192'400 MB/s
TMUs 88 48 80 64 
TAUs 88 48 80 64 
Shader Cores 352 (4D) 192 (5D) 320 (5D) 512 (1D)
ROPs 32 ROP 32 ROP 32 ROP 48 ROP
Shader model SM 5 SM 5 SM 5 SM 5
Maximum board power 200 Watt 127 Watt 188 Watt 244 Watt



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Page 4 - Overclocking Page 9 - Call of Juarez / Far Cry 2
Page 5 - Testing conditions Page 10 - Conclusion



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