AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs ATI FireMV 2260

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 and 256MB VRAM FireMV 2260 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

1496 additional rendering cores

ATI FireMV 2260 's Advantages

Lower TDP (15W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970 +6657%

2.703 TFLOPS

FireMV 2260

0.04 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

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FireMV 2260

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Jan 2008

Northern Islands

Generation

FireMV Multi-View

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

24

Compute Units

2

1536

Shading Units

40

96

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.000 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

40.00 GFLOPS

675.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

RV620

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 3

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

0.181 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

15W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

4.1

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