AMD Radeon R9 285 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2014
Dec 2010
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Northern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
176.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
28
24
Shading Units
1792
1536
TMUs
112
96
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
29.38 GPixel/s
28.16 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
102.8 GTexel/s
84.48 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
3.290 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
3.290 TFLOPS
2.703 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
205.6 GFLOPS
675.8 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tonga
Cayman
GPU Variant
Tonga PRO(215-0851128)
Cayman XT(215-0807007)
Architecture
GCN 3.0
TeraScale 3
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
40 nm
Transistors
5 billion
2.64 billion
Die Size
366 mm²
389 mm²
Board Design
TDP
190W
250W
Suggested PSU
450 W
600 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
OpenCL
2.1
1.2
Vulkan
1.2.170
N/A
Shader Model
6.5
5.0