AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 vs AMD Radeon RX 480
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Unknown
Jun 2016
Generation
Northern Islands
Arctic Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
2000 MHz
Base Clock
—
1120 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1266 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
256.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
24
36
Shading Units
1536
2304
TMUs
96
144
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
28.16 GPixel/s
40.51 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
84.48 GTexel/s
182.3 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.703 TFLOPS
5.834 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
5.834 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
—
364.6 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Antilles
Ellesmere
GPU Variant
Antilles XT(215-0807027)
Polaris 10 XT(215-0876184)
Architecture
TeraScale 3
GCN 4.0
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Process Size
40 nm
14 nm
Transistors
2.64 billion
5.7 billion
Die Size
389 mm²
232 mm²
Board Design
TDP
375W
150W
Suggested PSU
750 W
450 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
3x 8-pin
1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.3
Shader Model
5.0
6.7
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.