AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6970

AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 and 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 390 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 580W)

AMD Radeon R9 390 X2 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 390 X2 +89%

5.12 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

VS

Radeon R9 390 X2

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Sep 2015

Northern Islands

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1350 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

345.6GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

40

-

1536

Shading Units

2560

96

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

64

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

160.0 GTexel/s

-

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.120 TFLOPS

675.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

640.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

580W

600 W

Suggested PSU

950 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

4x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

Grenada

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GPU Variant

Grenada PRO (215-0880030)

TeraScale 3

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.3

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