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