AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 vs AMD Radeon HD 8860 OEM

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AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 AMD Radeon HD 8860 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 X2 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8860 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 's Advantages

256 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8860 OEM 's Advantages

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

Lower TDP (175W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970 X2 +14%

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8860 OEM

2.368 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970 X2

VS

Radeon HD 8860 OEM

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Jan 2013

Northern Islands

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

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

-

SM Count

-

24

Compute Units

20

1536

Shading Units

1280

96

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

74.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.368 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

148.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Antilles

GPU Name

Curacao

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

GPU Variant

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

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

Board Design

375W

TDP

175W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

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

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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