AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 vs ATI Radeon HD 2950 XTX

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2

ATI Radeon HD 2950 XTX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 X2 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2950 XTX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 72.06GB/s)

1216 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 2950 XTX 's Advantages

Lower TDP (110W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970 X2 +443%

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2950 XTX

0.497 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970 X2

VS

Radeon HD 2950 XTX

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Unknown

Northern Islands

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1126 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR4

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

72.06GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

4

-

1536

Shading Units

320

96

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.43 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.43 GTexel/s

-

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

497.3 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

99.46 GFLOPS

Board Design

375W

TDP

110W

750 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Antilles

GPU Name

RV670

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

GPU Variant

RV670 XTX (215-0708004)

TeraScale 3

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

4.1

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