AMD Radeon HD 6970
The Radeon HD 6970 measures 27cm long (10.6 in), the GPU core is clocked at 880MHz, 3.5% higher than the Radeon HD 5870, while the GDDR5 memory also operates slightly faster at 1375MHz. Pairing that frequency with a 256-bit wide memory bus gives the Radeon HD 6970 176GB/s of theoretical bandwidth, a 14.5% advantange over the HD 5870.
VLIW4 (Cayman XT)
Architecture
High-end
Product Tier
1536
Shader Cores
32
ROPs
96
TMUs
No RT
Ray Tracing
2 GB
Memory
GDDR5
Memory Type
176 GB/s
Bandwidth
250 W
TDP
| GPU Snapshot | |||
| Release date: | Dec 15, 2010 | Price at Launch: | $369 |
| Type: | Desktop | Architecture: | VLIW4 (Cayman XT) |
| Generation: | Radeon HD 6000 series | Product Tier: | High-end |
| VRAM Capacity: | 2 GB | Total Board Power: | 250 W |
| Core Configuration | |||
| Shader Cores: | 1536 | TMUs: | 96 |
| ROPs: | 32 | L2 Cache: | 512 KB |
| Memory | |||
| VRAM Capacity: | 2 GB | Memory Type: | GDDR5 |
| Memory Speed: | 5.5 Gbps | Memory Bus: | 256-bit |
| Bandwidth: | 176 GB/s | ||
| Graphics Processing | |||
| Base Clock: | 0.88 GHz | FP32 Throughput: | 2.70 TFLOPs |
| Ray Tracing: | No | Process Size: | 40nm |
| Process Name: | TSMC 40nm | Die Size: | 389 mm² |
| Power & Connectivity | |||
| Total Board Power: | 250 W | Power Connectors: | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin |
| Bus Interface: | PCIe 2.0 x16 | HDMI Support: | HDMI 1.4a |
| DisplayPort Support: | Mini-DP 1.2 | DSC: | No |
| Max Displays: | 4 | ||
| Media & Software Support | |||
| DirectX Support: | 11 | Shader Model: | 5.0 |
| OpenGL Version: | 4.4 | ||
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