AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

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AMD Radeon HD 6970 AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 and 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages

Lower TDP (250W vs 375W)

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1600MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled +385%

13.11 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

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Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Jul 2017

Northern Islands

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1382 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1600 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

945 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

483.8GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

24

Compute Units

64

1536

Shading Units

4096

96

TMUs

256

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

102.4 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

409.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

26.21 TFLOPS

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.11 TFLOPS

675.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

819.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

Vega 10

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XTX LCS

TeraScale 3

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

375W

600 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

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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