AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 vs AMD Radeon R7 250

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2

AMD Radeon R7 250

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 X2 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250 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 28.80GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 250 's Advantages

Lower TDP (55W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970 X2 +276%

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250

0.717 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970 X2

VS

Radeon R7 250

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Oct 2013

Northern Islands

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

8

-

1536

Shading Units

512

96

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.20 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

22.40 GTexel/s

-

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

716.8 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

44.80 GFLOPS

Board Design

375W

TDP

55W

750 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

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

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Antilles

GPU Name

Cape Verde

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRO

TeraScale 3

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

123 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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