AMD Radeon HD 6230 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 6230 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6230 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Lower TDP (19W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)

1456 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6230

0.104 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970 +2499%

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6230

VS

Radeon HD 6970

Graphics Card

Jul 2011

Release Date

Dec 2010

Northern Islands

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

667 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

10.67GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

2

Compute Units

24

80

Shading Units

1536

8

TMUs

96

4

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

2.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.16 GPixel/s

5.200 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

104.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

675.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Park

GPU Name

Cayman

Park S3 LP

GPU Variant

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

59 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Board Design

19W

TDP

250W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.0

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