Using the new Futuremark 3Dmark 11 benchmark, the Radeon HD 6950 was 20% faster than the GeForce GTX 470 when running the extreme test. Should this be the case when running actual games this could be very good news for AMD. The same test also reported that the Radeon HD 6950 was ~5% slower than the GeForce GTX 570 and 12% slower than the HD 6970 while it was just 2% faster than the HD 5870.