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AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

AMD Radeon HD 6970
VS
AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM
AMD Radeon HD 6970
AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock925MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)
256 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (200W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 6970
2.703 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 8950 OEM +22%
3.315 TFLOPS
VS

Graphics Card

Dec 2010
Release Date
Jan 2013
Northern Islands
Generation
Sea Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-
Base Clock
850 MHz
-
Boost Clock
925 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz

Memory

2GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
176.0GB/s
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s

Render Config

24
Compute Units
28
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
1792
96
TMUs
112
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
84.48 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
103.6 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.703 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.315 TFLOPS
675.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
828.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W
TDP
200W
600 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cayman
GPU Name
Tahiti
Cayman XT (215-0807007)
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)
TeraScale 3
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
2.64 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
389 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
-
-
-
5.0
Shader Model
5.1

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