Product Compare
AMD Radeon R9 280X vs AMD Radeon HD 6970
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Oct 2013 | Dec 2010 |
| Generation | Volcanic Islands | Northern Islands |
| Type | Desktop | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 2.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Base Clock | 850 MHz | |
| Boost Clock | 1000 MHz | |
| Memory Clock | 1500 MHz | 1375 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 3GB | 2GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 384bit | 256bit |
| Bandwidth | 288.0GB/s | 176.0GB/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 | 768 KB | 512 KB |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 32.00 GPixel/s | 28.16 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 128.0 GTexel/s | 84.48 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 4.096 TFLOPS | 2.703 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 1024 GFLOPS | 675.8 GFLOPS |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | Tahiti | Cayman |
| GPU Variant | Tahiti XTL(215-0821065) | Cayman XT(215-0807007) |
| Architecture | GCN 1.0 | TeraScale 3 |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
| Process Size | 28 nm | 40 nm |
| Transistors | 4.313 billion | 2.64 billion |
| Die Size | 352 mm² | 389 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 250W | 250W |
| Suggested PSU | 600 W | 600 W |
| Outputs | 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2 | 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 |
| Power Connectors | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 12 (11_1) | 11.2 (11_0) |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.4 |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | 1.2 |
| Vulkan | 1.2 | N/A |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | 5.0 |