Product Compare

AMD Radeon RX 560X vs AMD Radeon HD 6970

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Apr 2018 Dec 2010
Generation Polaris Northern Islands
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x8 PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1175 MHz
Boost Clock 1275 MHz
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 4GB 2GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 128bit 256bit
Bandwidth 112.0GB/s 176.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 16 24
Shading Units 1024 1536
TMUs 64 96
ROPs 16 32
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 1024 KB 512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 20.40 GPixel/s 28.16 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 81.60 GTexel/s 84.48 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 2.611 TFLOPS
FP32 (float) 2.611 TFLOPS 2.703 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 163.2 GFLOPS 675.8 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Polaris 21 Cayman
GPU Variant Polaris 21 XT(215-0908004) Cayman XT(215-0807007)
Architecture GCN 4.0 TeraScale 3
Foundry GlobalFoundries TSMC
Process Size 14 nm 40 nm
Transistors 3 billion 2.64 billion
Die Size 123 mm² 389 mm²
Board Design
TDP 75W 250W
Suggested PSU 250 W 600 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI 2.0b1x DisplayPort 1.4a 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors None 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 N/A
Shader Model 6.4 5.0