AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages
Lower TDP (250W vs 375W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 6970
2.703 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 6970 X2
2.703 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2010
Release Date
Unknown
Northern Islands
Generation
Northern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1375 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
176.0GB/s
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
24
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
1536
96
TMUs
96
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
28.16 GPixel/s
84.48 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
84.48 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.703 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.703 TFLOPS
675.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
250W
TDP
375W
600 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
3x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Cayman
GPU Name
Antilles
Cayman XT
(215-0807007)
GPU Variant
Antilles XT
(215-0807027)
TeraScale 3
Architecture
TeraScale 3
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
40 nm
2.64 billion
Transistors
2.64 billion
389 mm²
Die Size
389 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
