Radeon HD 6970 vs Radeon HD 8450 OEM
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6970 |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8450 OEM |
| 232 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 6970 . |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 6970
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 6970 | | Radeon HD 8450 OEM | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Cayman (Cayman XT) | vs | Caicos (Caicos PRO-L) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 389 mm² | vs | 67 mm² |
| Transistors | 2,640 million | vs | 370 million |
| Shaders | 1536 | vs | 160 |
| Compute Units | 24 | vs | 2 |
| Core clock | 880 MHz | vs | 625 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 4 |
| TMUs | 96 | vs | 8 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 6970 | | Radeon HD 8450 OEM | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | DDR3 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 64 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1375 MHz
5500 MHz effective | vs | 667 MHz
1334 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 6970 | | Radeon HD 8450 OEM | |
|---|
| TDP | 250 watts | vs | 18 watts |
| Release Date | 14 Dec 2010 | vs | 8 Jan 2013 |
Radeon HD 6970
28.20 GP/s
Radeon HD 8450 OEM
2.50 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 6970
84.50 GT/s
Radeon HD 8450 OEM
5.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 6970
176.00 GB/s
Radeon HD 8450 OEM
10.70 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 6970
2703.00 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 8450 OEM
200.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better