NVIDIA GeForce GTX 465
VS
AMD Radeon HD 6950
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 465
VS
AMD Radeon HD 6950

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GTX 465 and AMD Radeon HD 6950. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

403
Place in performance rating
404
12.28
Value for money (0-100)
12.11
Fermi
Architecture
TeraScale 3
GF100
Code name
Cayman
Desktop
Type
Desktop
31 May 2010 (11 years ago)
Release date
14 December 2010 (10 years ago)
$279
Launch price (MSRP)
$299
$202 (0.7x MSRP)
Price now
$244 (0.8x MSRP)
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Design
reference
3.13
Value for money
2.59
GF100
GPU code name
Cayman
Desktop
Market segment
Desktop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA GeForce GTX 465 and AMD Radeon HD 6950 based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

352
Pipelines
1408
607 MHz
Core clock speed
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Boost Clock
800 MHz
3,100 million
Transistor count
2,640 million
40 nm
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
200 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
500 Watt
26.7 billion/sec
Texture fill rate
70.40
855.4 gflops
Floating-point performance
2,252.8 gflops
105 °C
Maximum GPU temperature
no data
352
CUDA cores
no data
30x
Compute performance
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352
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1408
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Boost clock speed
800 MHz
3,100 million
Number of transistors
2,640 million
200 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
500 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 465 and AMD Radeon HD 6950.

PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
9.5" (241 mm) (24.1 cm)
Length
267 mm
Two 6-pins
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
+
SLI options
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PCI-E 2.0 x 16
Bus support
PCIe 2.0 x16
4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm)
Height
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Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics NVIDIA GeForce GTX 465 and AMD Radeon HD 6950 can be seen in this section.

GDDR5
Memory type
GDDR5
1 GB
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
256 Bit
Memory bus width
256 Bit
1603 MHz (3206 data rate)
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
102.6 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
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Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GTX 465 and AMD Radeon HD 6950, the size and number of monitors.

Two Dual Link DVIMini HDMI
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
+
Multi monitor support
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2048x1536
Maximum VGA resolution
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Internal
Audio input for HDMI
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Eyefinity
1
+
HDMI
+
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DisplayPort support
-

Technologies

The difference between NVIDIA GeForce GTX 465 and AMD Radeon HD 6950 is the additional functionality.

+
3D Vision
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+
CUDA
no data
+
Surround
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AppAcceleration
-
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CrossFire
1
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HD3D
-
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PowerTune
-
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TrueAudio
-
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ZeroCore
-
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Enduro
-
+
DSR
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API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 465 and AMD Radeon HD 6950. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12 (11_0)
DirectX
DirectX® 11
4.2
OpenGL
4.4
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Shader Model
5.0
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OpenCL
1.2
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Mantle
-

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA GeForce GTX 465 and AMD Radeon HD 6950 graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 465 or AMD Radeon HD 6950 good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 465
AMD Radeon HD 6950
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 465
AMD Radeon HD 6950
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 465
AMD Radeon HD 6950
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 465
AMD Radeon HD 6950
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 465
AMD Radeon HD 6950
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 465

0.23% faster in synthetic tests

Cheaper ($202 (0.7x MSRP) vs $244 (0.8x MSRP))

Less power consumption (200 Watt vs 500 Watt)

Advantages of AMD Radeon HD 6950

More pipelines (1408 vs 352)

More maximum RAM amount (2 GB vs 1 GB)

So, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 465 or AMD Radeon HD 6950?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA GeForce GTX 465 .

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 465 versus AMD Radeon HD 6950 performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score NVIDIA GeForce GTX 465
0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score AMD Radeon HD 6950