AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs AMD FireStream 9350

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6970

AMD FireStream 9350

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9350 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

96 additional rendering cores

AMD FireStream 9350 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970 +34%

2.703 TFLOPS

FireStream 9350

2.016 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

VS

FireStream 9350

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Jun 2010

Northern Islands

Generation

FireStream

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

18

-

1536

Shading Units

1440

96

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

22.40 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

50.40 GTexel/s

-

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.016 TFLOPS

675.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

403.2 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 DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

Cypress

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GPU Variant

Cypress PRO GL

TeraScale 3

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

334 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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