AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs AMD FirePro RG220A

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

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

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

1456 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro RG220A 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970 +3278%

2.703 TFLOPS

FirePro RG220A

0.08 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

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FirePro RG220A

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

May 2010

Northern Islands

Generation

FirePro Remote

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

24

Compute Units

1

1536

Shading Units

80

96

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.000 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

675.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

M93

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 3

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

0.242 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

73 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

35W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

4.1

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