AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs AMD FirePro D700
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Dec 2010
Jan 2014
Generation
Northern Islands
FirePro
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1370 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
6GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
384bit
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
263.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
24
32
Shading Units
1536
2048
TMUs
96
128
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
28.16 GPixel/s
27.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
84.48 GTexel/s
108.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.703 TFLOPS
3.482 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
675.8 GFLOPS
870.4 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Cayman
Tahiti
GPU Variant
Cayman XT(215-0807007)
Tahiti XT GL
Architecture
TeraScale 3
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.64 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
389 mm²
352 mm²
Board Design
TDP
250W
274W
Suggested PSU
600 W
600 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.21x SDI
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
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Graphics Features
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
1.2
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.