AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 6950
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2013
Dec 2010
Generation
Sea Islands
Northern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
256bit
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s
160.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
22
Shading Units
2048
1408
TMUs
128
88
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
768 KB
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
25.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
70.40 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
2.253 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
947.2 GFLOPS
563.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
Cayman
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT(215-0821060)
Cayman PRO(215-0807019)
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TeraScale 3
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
40 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
2.64 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
389 mm²
Board Design
TDP
250W
200W
Suggested PSU
600 W
550 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
N/A
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.