AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs AMD Radeon E9390 PCIe
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Dec 2010
Oct 2019
Generation
Northern Islands
Embedded
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1250 MHz
Base Clock
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713 MHz
Boost Clock
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1089 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
160.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
24
28
Shading Units
1536
1792
TMUs
96
112
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
28.16 GPixel/s
34.85 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
84.48 GTexel/s
122.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.703 TFLOPS
3.903 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
675.8 GFLOPS
243.9 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
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3.903 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Cayman
Ellesmere
GPU Variant
Cayman XT(215-0807007)
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Architecture
TeraScale 3
GCN 4.0
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Process Size
40 nm
14 nm
Transistors
2.64 billion
5.7 billion
Die Size
389 mm²
232 mm²
Board Design
TDP
250W
75W
Suggested PSU
600 W
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Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.2
Shader Model
5.0
6.4
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.