Product Compare

AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP vs AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Oct 2018 Unknown
Generation Polaris Northern Islands
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1168 MHz
Boost Clock 1284 MHz
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 4GB 2GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 256bit
Bandwidth 224.0GB/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 2 MB 512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 41.09 GPixel/s 28.16 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 164.4 GTexel/s 84.48 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 5.259 TFLOPS
FP32 (float) 5.259 TFLOPS 2.703 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 328.7 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Polaris 20 Antilles
GPU Variant Polaris 20 XL(215-0910052) Antilles XT(215-0807027)
Architecture GCN 4.0 TeraScale 3
Foundry GlobalFoundries TSMC
Process Size 14 nm 40 nm
Transistors 5.7 billion 2.64 billion
Die Size 232 mm² 389 mm²
Board Design
TDP 150W 375W
Suggested PSU 450 W 750 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors 1x 8-pin 3x 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