AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 6230

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

AMD Radeon HD 6230

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 6230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)

1968 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6230 's Advantages

Lower TDP (19W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970 OEM +3543%

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6230

0.104 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 6230

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Jul 2011

Sea Islands

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

667 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

10.67GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

2

-

2048

Shading Units

80

128

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.600 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.200 GTexel/s

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

104.0 GFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

250W

TDP

19W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Park

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

Park S3 LP

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

59 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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