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Release date: Q4 2010.

Average Bench: 19% (223rd of 713)

Based on 24,657 user benchmarks.  Device: 1002 6719 Models: AMD Radeon HD 6900, ASUS EAH6950, AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series
Poor: 18%Average: 19% Great: 21%

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Terrible average bench

The AMD HD 6950 averaged 81.0% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This isn't a great result which indicates that there are much faster alternatives on the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat) 24.7fps
Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm) 17.9fps

Excellent consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the AMD HD 6950 is just 3.38%. This is an extremely narrow range which indicates that the AMD HD 6950 performs superbly consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot) 27.2fps
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 23.7fps

Average Bench

(Based on 24,657 samples)
Rank 22319%
Min Avg Max
23 Lighting 24.7 28.6
24 Reflection 27.2 29.6
21.2 Parallax 23.7 26.1
20.1% 25.2 fps
Min Avg Max
20.4 MRender 22.6 24.3
20 Gravity 22.4 24.5
16.2 Splatting 17.9 19.3
16.8% 20.9 fps
User Benchmarks Bench3D DX93D DX103D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
Gigabyte(1458 21FD) 1GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008
19.1% Very poor
Lighting 24.2
Reflection 29.1
Parallax 25
20% 26.1 fps
MRender 23.6
Gravity 23.7
Splatting 19.3
18% 22.2 fps
AMD(1002 0B00) 2GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008
18.5% Very poor
Lighting 23.9
Reflection 27
Parallax 23.3
20% 24.7 fps
MRender 22.3
Gravity 21.9
Splatting 17.8
17% 20.7 fps
Sapphire(174B 186B) 2GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008
18.5% Very poor
Lighting 23.9
Reflection 26.7
Parallax 23.2
20% 24.6 fps
MRender 22.1
Gravity 21.9
Splatting 17.7
16% 20.6 fps
XFX(1682 3121) 2GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008
18.4% Very poor
Lighting 23.8
Reflection 26.8
Parallax 23.2
19% 24.6 fps
MRender 21.8
Gravity 21.9
Splatting 17.8
16% 20.5 fps
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Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price (MSRP ≈ $290 @ launch in Dec '10)
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Sapphire(174B 186B) 19% 19% ± 1%
AMD(1002 0B00) 15% 19% ± 1%
PwrHis(1787 2307) 12% 19% ± 1%
Sapphire(174B E186) 7% 19% ± 1%
MSI(1462 2461) 6% 20% ± 2%
Gigabyte(1458 21FD) 6% 19% ± 1%
PwrHis(1787 2010) 4% 20% ± 1%
Asus(1043 03BE) 4% 21% ± 0%
XFX(1682 3120) 3% 19% ± 1%
XFX(1682 3121) 3% 19% ± 1%
XFX(1682 3122) 3% 19% ± 0%
XFX(1682 3125) 3% 19% ± 1%
Asus(1043 03BA) 3% 19% ± 1%
Asus(1043 03D4) 3% 21% ± 1%
MSI(1462 2460) 2% 19% ± 0%
Sapphire(174B E182) 2% 19% ± 2%
XFX(1682 3126) 2% 19% ± 0%
XFX(1682 3124) 1% 19% ± 0%
XFX(1682 3123) 1% 19% ± 1%
MSI(1462 2462) 0% 19% ± 1%
Device(0000 0000) 0% 20% ± 2%
XFX(1682 3127) 0% 19% ± 0%
AMD(1002 2307) 0% 19% ± 0%
XFX(1682 3128) 0% 19% ± 0%
Sapphire(174B E284) 0% 21% ± 0%
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Gaming 18%
Surfboard
Desktop
Desktop 75%
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Workstation
Workstation 15%
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Motherboard: Asus P8P67 - $120

CPU
Core i5-2500KIntel  $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples462x
Core i7-2600KIntel  $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples374x
Core i7-2600Intel  $173Bench 67%, 185,630 samples203x
GPU
HD 6950AMD  $290Bench 19%, 24,657 samples1x
SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung  $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples50x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung  $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples48x
A400 480GBKingston  $35Bench 74%, 237,487 samples33x
RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 34,385 samples39x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 48%, 73,650 samples35x
XMS3 DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 4,223 samples24x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 36% - Below average Total price: $756

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GPUPro
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1,641

Official site www.amd.com/...

Added 9 years ago.
USA-User
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10,048

Excellent (edit your comment) Add link

17 days ago.

pretty good card. no problems so far

CAN-User
Avatar level
5,080

Good

3 years ago.

I use this card and I get pubg 60fps solid on med settings!

FRA-User
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4,675

Poor

3 years ago.

Ne supporte pas directx 12 et les pilotes vulcans ect..

NLD-User
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3,610

Good

3 years ago.

its good enough for gaming and cooling is realy good its not higher than 58c and work good

KOR-User
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3,252

Good

14 months ago.

The best graphics card in 2010

GRC-User
Avatar level
3,205

Excellent

3 years ago.

Love it because it is the cheapest legit card anyone can buy.

SWE-User
Avatar level
2,818

Excellent

3 years ago.

Still awesome for playing in 1080p medium/high settings in most modern games, excellent in 720p gaming in ultra settings for most games up to 2016..

karma713
Avatar level
44

Excellent

6 years ago.

worked great for many years...still better than any iGPU options

Antimat
Avatar level
42

Good

5 years ago.

I have 2 GPU in Crossfire and playing Metro 2033 on Ultra and no problem..... But GPU is 40nm = old.... very energetically ineffective but on 10 yrs gpu is too impresive

BlueMicrobe775
Avatar level
16

Good

3 years ago.

Good cards for collecting, performance is between okay and poor however. It has fallen into the spot where the power consumption and noise is not worth it anymore. Although it helps me save money on heating my room so four stars

hugolosker
Avatar level
6

Good

9 years ago.

Very good vga!

reknerz
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2

Excellent

5 years ago.

Extremely reliable for 9 years, performed above expected until now (2019). Ran Witcher 3 and Fallout 4 at least at medium graphics, with extremely rare issues

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