Radeon HD 6970 Overview

Radeon HD 6970
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 14 Dec 2010
Radeon HD 6970

Core Configuration

GPU Cayman
Architecture ATI_TeraScale
Shaders : TMUs : ROPs 1536 : 96 : 32
Raytracing Cores none
Performance 2703.00 GFLOPs

Memory Configuration

Memory Size 2048 Mb
Memory Bus Width 256 bit
Memory Speed 1375 MHz
5500 MHz effective
Memory Bandwidth 176.00 Gb/s

Summary

Relative performance

  • GeForce GTX TITAN Z
    508%
  • GeForce GTX TITAN X
    475%
  • Radeon R9 295X2
    466%
  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
    458%
  • Radeon R9 FURY X
    445%
  • Radeon R9 FURY
    412%
  • Radeon R9 Nano
    395%
  • GeForce GTX 980
    358%
  • GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK
    333%
  • GeForce GTX 780 Ti
    325%
  • GeForce GTX TITAN
    308%
  • GeForce GTX 970
    304%
  • GeForce GTX 780
    304%
  • Radeon R9 290X
    258%
  • Radeon R9 290
    241%
  • Radeon R9 380X
    233%
  • GeForce GTX 770
    216%
  • Radeon R9 285
    208%
  • Radeon R9 280X
    200%
  • GeForce GTX 960
    195%
  • GeForce GTX 680
    191%
  • Radeon HD 6990
    187%
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    187%
  • GeForce GTX 670
    179%
  • GeForce GTX 760
    170%
  • GeForce GTX 950
    170%
  • Radeon HD 7970
    162%
  • Radeon HD 7950
    150%
  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    150%
  • Radeon R9 270X
    141%
  • Radeon R9 270
    133%
  • GeForce GTX 660
    129%
  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    125%
  • GeForce GTX 580
    120%
  • Radeon R7 265
    120%
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
    112%
  • GeForce GTX 480
    100%
  • Radeon HD 6970
    100%
  • Radeon HD 7850
    95%
  • GeForce GTX 750
    91%
  • Radeon R7 260X
    91%
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    79%
  • Radeon HD 7790
    79%
  • Radeon HD 6870
    75%

Performance summary, based on benchmarks charts.

The Radeon HD 6970 is a graphics card released by AMD on 14 Dec 2010. The graphics card houses the Cayman die, based on the ATI_TeraScale architecture which packs 2,640 million transistors on a 40 nm, 389 mm2 die.

Radeon HD 6970 pros and cons

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications



Specifications


Compared to similar performing cards

Radeon HD 6970GeForce GTX 750Radeon R7 260XGeForce GTX 650 Ti BoostRadeon HD 7850
Radeon HD 6970GeForce GTX 750Radeon R7 260XGeForce GTX 650 Ti BoostRadeon HD 7850
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Shader units15365128967681024
ROPs3216162432
Graphics processorCaymanGM107BonaireGK106Pitcairn
Process size40 nm28 nm28 nm28 nm28 nm
Memory2048 Mb GDDR5 (1375 MHz
5500 MHz effective)
1024 Mb GDDR5 (1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective)
2048 Mb GDDR5 (1625 MHz
6500 MHz effective)
2048 Mb GDDR5 (1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective)
2048 Mb GDDR5 (1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective)
Memory bus width256 bit128 bit128 bit192 bit256 bit
Memory bandwidth176.00 Gb/s80.20 Gb/s104.00 Gb/s144.00 Gb/s154.00 Gb/s
Release date14 Dec 201018 Feb 20148 Oct 201326 Mar 20135 Mar 2012

Benchmarks

Bioshock Infinite

  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
    27
  • Radeon HD 6970
    24
  • Radeon HD 7850
    23
  • GeForce GTX 750
    22
  • Radeon R7 260X
    22

FPS (higher is better)