AMD Radeon HD 6970

This is a GPU manufactured with TSMC 40nm process, based on AMD TeraScale 3 architecture and released on Dec 2010. It features 2.64 billion transistors, 1536 Rendering cores and 2GB GDDR5 memory, with 512KB L2 cache, theoretical performance of 2.703TFLOPS, with total power consumption of 250W.

Graphics Card

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Release Date

Dec 2010

Generation

Northern Islands

Type

Desktop

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

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Memory Clock

1375MHz

Memory

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Memory Size

2GB

Memory Type

GDDR5

Memory Bus

256bit

Bandwidth

176.0 GB/s

Render Config

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Compute Units

24

Shading Units

1536

TMUs

96

ROPs

32

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

L2 Cache

512KB

Theoretical Performance

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Pixel Rate

28.16 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

675.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

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GPU Name

Cayman

GPU Variant

Cayman XT

(215-0807007)

Architecture

TeraScale 3

Foundry

TSMC

Process Size

40 nm

Transistors

2,640 million

Die Size

389mm²

Board Design

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TDP

250W

Suggested PSU

600W

Outputs

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

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

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DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

OpenGL

4.4

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

Shader Model

5.0

Rankings

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FP32 (float)

NVIDIA RTX A400 4 GB GDDR6

2.706 TFLOPS

NVIDIA GeForce MX550 2 GB GDDR6

2.703 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 2 GB GDDR5

2.703 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon HD 6970 2 GB GDDR5

2.703 TFLOPS

Intel Arc A310 4 GB GDDR6

2.688 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon R9 270X 2 GB GDDR5

2.688 TFLOPS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 3 GB GDDR5

2.657 TFLOPS

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