ATI FireMV 2260 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970

VS

ATI FireMV 2260

AMD Radeon HD 6970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM FireMV 2260 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI FireMV 2260 's Advantages

Lower TDP (15W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

1496 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireMV 2260

0.04 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970 +6657%

2.703 TFLOPS

FireMV 2260

VS

Radeon HD 6970

Graphics Card

Jan 2008

Release Date

Dec 2010

FireMV Multi-View

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

2

Compute Units

24

-

40

Shading Units

1536

4

TMUs

96

4

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.16 GPixel/s

2.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

-

40.00 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

675.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

15W

TDP

250W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

4x mini-DisplayPort

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

RV620

GPU Name

Cayman

-

GPU Variant

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

TeraScale

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.181 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

67 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

N/A

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

4.1

Shader Model

5.0

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