ATI Radeon HD 5690 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5690

AMD Radeon HD 6970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5690 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5690 's Advantages

Lower TDP (64W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

1136 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5690

0.62 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970 +335%

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5690

VS

Radeon HD 6970

Graphics Card

Feb 2011

Release Date

Dec 2010

Evergreen

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

24

-

400

Shading Units

1536

20

TMUs

96

8

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.16 GPixel/s

15.50 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

-

620.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

675.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

64W

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

Redwood

GPU Name

Cayman

Redwood XT (215-0757002)

GPU Variant

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.0

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