AMD Radeon HD 6970: GPU Specs & Benchmarks

The Radeon HD 6970 is a graphics card by AMD, built on the 40 nm process and based on the Cayman graphics processor (GPU). The video card specifications and performance tests (benchmarks) are listed below.

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Graphics Processor (GPU)

GPU Name
Cayman
Model number
Cayman XT
(215-0807007)
Architecture
TeraScale 3
Foundry
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
Transistors
2,640 million
Die Size
389 mm²

Graphics Card

Release Date
Dec 14th, 2010
Family
Northern Islands
(HD 6900)
Production
End-of-life
Launch Price
369 USD
Predecessor
Evergreen
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16

Memory

Memory Size
2 GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256 bit
Bandwidth
176.0 GB/s

Performance

Pixel fillrate
28.16 GPixel/s
Texture fillrate
84.48 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance
2.703 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance
675.8 GFLOPS (1:4)

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock
1375 MHz
5.5 Gbps effective
GPU Clock
880 MHz

Render Config

Shading Units
1536
TMUs
96
ROPs
32
Compute Units
24
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB

Board Design

Slot Width
Dual-slot
Length
286 mm
11.3 inches
Width
126 mm
5 inches
Height
42 mm
1.7 inches
Thermal design power (TDP)
250 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
Display Connectors
2x DVI
1x HDMI
2x mini-DisplayPort
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Board Number
C200-47

API support

DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.4
OpenCL
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
Shader Model
5.0
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AMD Radeon HD 6970: GPU Specs & Benchmarks