AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs AMD Ryzen Z2 GPU
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Dec 2010
Jan 2025
Generation
Northern Islands
Console GPU
Type
Desktop
Game console
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
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Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
937 MHz
Base Clock
-
800 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2700 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
16GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
LPDDR5X
Memory Bus
256bit
128bit
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
59.97GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
24
12
Shading Units
1536
768
TMUs
96
48
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
128 KB per Array
L2 Cache
512 KB
8 MB
RT Cores
-
12
L3 Cache
-
16 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
28.16 GPixel/s
86.40 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
84.48 GTexel/s
129.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.703 TFLOPS
8.294 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
675.8 GFLOPS
518.4 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
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16.59 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Cayman
Hawk Point
GPU Variant
Cayman XT(215-0807007)
100-000001753
Architecture
TeraScale 3
RDNA 3.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
4 nm
Transistors
2.64 billion
25.39 billion
Die Size
389 mm²
178 mm²
Board Design
TDP
250W
28W
Suggested PSU
600 W
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Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x USB Type-C
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.3
Shader Model
5.0
6.8