AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 64
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Dec 2010
Aug 2017
Generation
Northern Islands
Vega
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
945 MHz
Base Clock
-
1247 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1546 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
8GB
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
98.94 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
84.48 GTexel/s
395.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.703 TFLOPS
12.66 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
675.8 GFLOPS
791.6 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
25.33 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Cayman
Vega 10
GPU Variant
Cayman XT(215-0807007)
Vega 10 XT(215-0894200)
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
295W
Suggested PSU
600 W
600 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
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
-
7,373
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
-
3,619
Battlefield 5 1080p
-
129
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
-
31
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
-
62
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
-
92
Battlefield 5 2160p
-
57
Blender
-
660
Battlefield 5 1440p
-
95
GTA 5 2160p
-
56
GTA 5 1440p
-
107