AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 vs AMD Radeon R5 310 OEM

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AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 AMD Radeon R5 310 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 X2 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 310 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

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

1376 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 310 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970 X2 +865%

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 310 OEM

0.28 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970 X2

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Radeon R5 310 OEM

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

May 2015

Northern Islands

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

24

Compute Units

2

1536

Shading Units

160

96

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.500 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

280.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Antilles

GPU Name

Caicos

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

GPU Variant

Caicos XT (215-0804070)

TeraScale 3

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Board Design

375W

TDP

35W

750 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

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

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.0

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