AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs ATI Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition

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AMD Radeon HD 6970

ATI Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (64W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970 +181%

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition

0.96 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

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Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Jul 2010

Northern Islands

Generation

Evergreen

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

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

8

-

1536

Shading Units

640

96

TMUs

32

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.000 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.00 GTexel/s

-

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

960.0 GFLOPS

675.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

250W

TDP

64W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

Juniper

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GPU Variant

Juniper CE

TeraScale 3

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

1.04 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

166 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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