AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs Intel Xe DG1 SDV

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 and 8GB VRAM Xe DG1 SDV to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 68.26GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Intel Xe DG1 SDV 's Advantages

Boost Clock1500MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970 +17%

2.703 TFLOPS

Xe DG1 SDV

2.304 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

VS

Xe DG1 SDV

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Unknown

Northern Islands

Generation

Xe Graphics

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

900 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1500 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

2133 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

LPDDR4X

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

68.26GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

768

96

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

36.00 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.608 TFLOPS

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

675.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

576.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

DG1

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Generation 12.1

TSMC

Foundry

Intel

40 nm

Process Size

10 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

Unknown

389 mm²

Die Size

95 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

75W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 3x DisplayPort

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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