Product Compare
AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Jun 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 | 1350 MHz | 1375 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 4GB | 2GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 512bit | 256bit |
| Bandwidth | 345.6GB/s | 176.0GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Compute Units | 44 | 24 |
| Shading Units | 2816 | 1536 |
| TMUs | 176 | 96 |
| ROPs | 64 | 32 |
| L1 Cache | 16 KB (per CU) | 8 KB (per CU) |
| L2 Cache | 1024 KB | 512 KB |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 64.00 GPixel/s | 28.16 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 176.0 GTexel/s | 84.48 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 5.632 TFLOPS | 2.703 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 704.0 GFLOPS | 675.8 GFLOPS |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | Hawaii | Cayman |
| GPU Variant | Hawaii XT(215-0852000) | Cayman XT(215-0807007) |
| Architecture | GCN 2.0 | TeraScale 3 |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
| Process Size | 28 nm | 40 nm |
| Transistors | 6.2 billion | 2.64 billion |
| Die Size | 438 mm² | 389 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 580W | 250W |
| Suggested PSU | 950 W | 600 W |
| Outputs | 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2 | 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 |
| Power Connectors | 4x 8-pin | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 12 (12_0) | 11.2 (11_0) |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.4 |
| OpenCL | 2.0 | 1.2 |
| Vulkan | 1.2 | N/A |
| Shader Model | 6.3 | 5.0 |