AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Dec 2010
Jun 2017
Generation
Northern Islands
Radeon Pro
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
945 MHz
Base Clock
—
1382 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1600 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
16GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM2
Memory Bus
256bit
2048bit
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
483.8GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
24
64
Shading Units
1536
4096
TMUs
96
256
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
4 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
28.16 GPixel/s
102.4 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
84.48 GTexel/s
409.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.703 TFLOPS
13.11 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
675.8 GFLOPS
819.2 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
26.21 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Cayman
Vega 10
GPU Variant
Cayman XT(215-0807007)
Vega 10 XTX AIR
Architecture
TeraScale 3
GCN 5.0
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Process Size
40 nm
14 nm
Transistors
2.64 billion
12.5 billion
Die Size
389 mm²
495 mm²
Board Design
TDP
250W
300W
Suggested PSU
600 W
700 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
2x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.2
Shader Model
5.0
6.4
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.