AMD Radeon RX 570 X2 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970

VS

AMD Radeon RX 570 X2

AMD Radeon HD 6970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 570 X2 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 570 X2 's Advantages

Boost Clock1206MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (268.8GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (180W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 570 X2 +82%

4.94 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 570 X2

VS

Radeon HD 6970

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Dec 2010

Mining GPUs

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

-

1206 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2100 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

268.8GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

24

-

2048

Shading Units

1536

128

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.16 GPixel/s

154.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

4.940 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.940 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

308.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

675.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

180W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.0b

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

Cayman

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

GPU Variant

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale 3

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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