AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs AMD Radeon R9 270X

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6970

AMD Radeon R9 270X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages

256 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 270X 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (180W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270X

2.688 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

VS

Radeon R9 270X

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Oct 2013

Northern Islands

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

20

-

1536

Shading Units

1280

96

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.60 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.00 GTexel/s

-

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.688 TFLOPS

675.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

168.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

180W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

Curacao

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GPU Variant

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

TeraScale 3

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

212 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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