AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs AMD Radeon R9 370X
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Dec 2010
Aug 2015
Generation
Northern Islands
Pirate Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1400 MHz
Base Clock
—
980 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1030 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
179.2GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
24
24
Shading Units
1536
1280
TMUs
96
80
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
28.16 GPixel/s
32.96 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
84.48 GTexel/s
82.40 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.703 TFLOPS
2.637 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
675.8 GFLOPS
164.8 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Cayman
Trinidad
GPU Variant
Cayman XT(215-0807007)
Trinidad XT
Architecture
TeraScale 3
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.64 billion
2.8 billion
Die Size
389 mm²
212 mm²
Board Design
TDP
250W
180W
Suggested PSU
600 W
450 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
1.2
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.