AMD Radeon RX 570 vs AMD Radeon HD 6990
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Apr 2017
Mar 2011
Generation
Polaris
Northern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1168 MHz
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Boost Clock
1244 MHz
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Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
160.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
24
Shading Units
2048
1536
TMUs
128
96
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
39.81 GPixel/s
26.56 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
159.2 GTexel/s
79.68 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
5.095 TFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
5.095 TFLOPS
2.550 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
318.5 GFLOPS
637.4 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Polaris 20
Antilles
GPU Variant
Polaris 20 XL(215-0910052)
Antilles XT(215-0807027)
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TeraScale 3
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Process Size
14 nm
40 nm
Transistors
5.7 billion
2.64 billion
Die Size
232 mm²
389 mm²
Board Design
TDP
150W
375W
Suggested PSU
450 W
750 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
2x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
OpenCL
2.1
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
N/A
Shader Model
6.4
5.0
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
3,851
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
1,770
—
Battlefield 5 1080p
69
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
18
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
34
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
52
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Battlefield 5 2160p
27
—
Battlefield 5 1440p
51
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GTA 5 1080p
100
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▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.