Radeon HD 4670 AGP vs Radeon HD 6970
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4670 AGP and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon HD 4670 AGP 's Advantages
Lower TDP (59W vs 250W)
Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 5 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
1216 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 4670 AGP
480
Radeon HD 6970
+463%
2703
Graphics Card
Jul 2009
Release Date
Dec 2010
Radeon R700
Generation
Northern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
AGP 8x
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
800 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
25.60GB/s
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
24
320
Shading Units
1536
32
TMUs
96
8
ROPs
32
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
128 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
6.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
28.16 GPixel/s
24.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
84.48 GTexel/s
480.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.703 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
675.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
59W
TDP
250W
250 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
-
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
RV730
GPU Name
Cayman
RV730 XT
(215-0719047)
GPU Variant
Cayman XT
(215-0807007)
TeraScale
Architecture
TeraScale 3
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.514 billion
Transistors
2.64 billion
146 mm²
Die Size
389 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.4
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
4.1
Shader Model
5.0
