AMD FirePro RG220A vs AMD Radeon HD 6970

VS

AMD FirePro RG220A

AMD Radeon HD 6970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM FirePro RG220A and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro RG220A 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

1456 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro RG220A

0.08 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970 +3278%

2.703 TFLOPS

FirePro RG220A

VS

Radeon HD 6970

Graphics Card

May 2010

Release Date

Dec 2010

FirePro Remote

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

51.20GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

1

Compute Units

24

-

80

Shading Units

1536

8

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

4.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

-

80.00 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

675.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

250W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

M93

GPU Name

Cayman

-

GPU Variant

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

TeraScale

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.242 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

73 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

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