Graphics card overview

Radeon HD 6970

AMD

Radeon HD 6970

2048 Mb GDDR5 Released 14 Dec 2010 DESKTOP

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

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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 6970	GeForce GTX 750 Compare	Radeon R7 260X Compare	GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost Compare	Radeon HD 7850 Compare
Shader units	1536	512	896	768	1024
ROPs	32	16	16	24	32
Graphics processor	Cayman	GM107	Bonaire	GK106	Pitcairn
Process size	40 nm	28 nm	28 nm	28 nm	28 nm
Memory	2048 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 width	256 bit	128 bit	128 bit	192 bit	256 bit
Memory bandwidth	176.00 Gb/s	80.20 Gb/s	104.00 Gb/s	144.00 Gb/s	154.00 Gb/s
Release date	14 Dec 2010	18 Feb 2014	8 Oct 2013	26 Mar 2013	5 Mar 2012