AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs AMD Radeon RX 570

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 570 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 570 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1244MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 570 +88%

5.095 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

VS

Radeon RX 570

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Apr 2017

Northern Islands

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1168 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1244 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

24

Compute Units

32

1536

Shading Units

2048

96

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

39.81 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

159.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

5.095 TFLOPS

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.095 TFLOPS

675.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

318.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

Polaris 20

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

TeraScale 3

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

150W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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