AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

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AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 X2 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

928 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 X2

2.016 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition +113%

4.301 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 X2

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Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

Jul 2011

Release Date

Jun 2012

Northern Islands

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

14

Compute Units

32

1120

Shading Units

2048

56

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.60 GPixel/s

50.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

134.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.016 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.301 TFLOPS

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FP64 (double)

1075 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

Tahiti

Barts XT (215-0798000)

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

300W

700 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

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

-

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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