AMD Radeon HD 6950

The family of GPU Radeon HD is constantly evolving. AMD has announced the new leaders recently dual-GPU, the Radeon HD 6990, intended for hardcore gamers. The producer, however, do not forget the budget conscious gamers. Precisely for this reason, there is the Radeon HD 6950, slightly weakened version than its big brother HD 6970. The HD 6900 is based on the architecture generation Cayman and is fundamentally different from the HD 6800 series which is a development platform HD 5000, according to alternative concepts Barts Barts XT and PRO.

VLIW4 new structure allows for greater efficiency than the previous one and is the result of very careful design optimization. The Cayman has a dual GPU Graphics Engine residing upstream of the graphics pipeline capable of processing and graphics two basic (primitive) for each clock cycle. Each computing engine incorporates a unit of tessellation of the eighth generation. The SIMD units are structured to accommodate 64 stream processors, the HD version for 22 blocks SIMD 6950 are available. The unified core are 1408, 128 less than in HD 6970, which is the top of the line single GPU.

HD 6950 is, in effect, a solution from the relatively low price, in order to gain a powerful new platform, compatible with the latest graphics standards and able to express themselves clearly better than the solutions of the medium / high on the market today. AMD Radeon HD 6950, which has 88 TMU, offers 16 units more than HD 5850 and 40 in more than a Radeon HD 6850. As for the clock operation, HD 6950 uses a core at 800 MHz (80 MHz in less than HD 6970) and is supported by 2 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1250 MHz (5 Gbps data rate).