AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 vs AMD Radeon HD 6530

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2

AMD Radeon HD 6530

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 X2 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6530 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 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 19.20GB/s)

1136 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6530 's Advantages

Lower TDP (39W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970 X2 +419%

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6530

0.52 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970 X2

VS

Radeon HD 6530

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

May 2011

Northern Islands

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

19.20GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

5

-

1536

Shading Units

400

96

TMUs

20

32

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.200 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

13.00 GTexel/s

-

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

520.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

375W

TDP

39W

750 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Antilles

GPU Name

Redwood

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

GPU Variant

Redwood PRO (215-0757004)

TeraScale 3

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.0

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