AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs AMD Radeon R7 360 896SP
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Dec 2010
Jun 2015
Generation
Northern Islands
Pirate Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
128bit
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
96.00GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
24
14
Shading Units
1536
896
TMUs
96
56
ROPs
32
16
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
28.16 GPixel/s
17.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
84.48 GTexel/s
61.60 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.703 TFLOPS
1.971 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
675.8 GFLOPS
123.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Cayman
Tobago
GPU Variant
Cayman XT(215-0807007)
Tobago XT
Architecture
TeraScale 3
GCN 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.64 billion
2.08 billion
Die Size
389 mm²
160 mm²
Board Design
TDP
250W
85W
Suggested PSU
600 W
250 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.2
Shader Model
5.0
6.3
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.