AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs AMD Radeon Pro W6600

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro W6600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro W6600 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock2580MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (100W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro W6600 +242%

9.247 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

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Radeon Pro W6600

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Jun 2021

Northern Islands

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2331 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2580 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

24

Compute Units

28

1536

Shading Units

1792

96

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

28

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

165.1 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

289.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

18.49 TFLOPS

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.247 TFLOPS

675.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

577.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

Navi 23

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 3

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

11.06 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

237 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

100W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.5

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