AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs Intel Arc B570

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6970

Intel Arc B570

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 and 10GB VRAM Arc B570 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc B570 's Advantages

Released 14 years late

Boost Clock2500MHz

More VRAM (10GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (380.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970

2.703 TFLOPS

Arc B570 +326%

11.52 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

VS

Arc B570

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Dec 2024

Northern Islands

Generation

Battlemage(Arc 5)

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2500 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2500 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

2375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

10GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

160bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

380.0GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

2304

96

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

144

-

RT Cores

18

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

256 KB (per EU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

18 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

200.0 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

360.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

23.04 TFLOPS

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

11.52 TFLOPS

675.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1440 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

150W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1a3x DisplayPort 2.1

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

BMG-G21

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Xe2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

5 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

19.6 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

272 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.4

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.6

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

2

AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs AMD Radeon Pro W5500

3

AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

4

AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA CMP 100HX-210

5

AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs ATI Radeon HD 4670

6

AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs AMD Radeon R7 435 OEM

7

AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 OEM

8

AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA PG506 232

9

AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs AMD Radeon R7 350 640SP

10

AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs AMD Radeon 550X 640SP

Related News

1

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market

2

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

3

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

4

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

5

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

6

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

7

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

8

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

9

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU

10

Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.2: Intel Arrow Lake Gaming Performance Soars by 33%!