AMD · TeraScale 3 · 2010
Radeon HD 6970 (Cayman XT)
Radeon HD 6970 (Cayman XT): 2 GB GDDR5, 250 W, 1,536 Stream processors. Launched December 15, 2010 at $369.
- Memory
- 2 GB
- Power
- 250 W
- Bus width
- 256 bit
Memory2 GB
11 of 183 in Radeon HD
Power250 W
5 of 157 by higher draw in Radeon HD
Stream processors1,536
15 of 179 in Radeon HD
Launch price$369
16 of 75 in Radeon HD
Current market
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Specifications
Memory
- Capacity
- 2 GB
- Memory type
- GDDR5
- Bus width
- 256 bit
- Memory clock
- 1,375 MHz
- Bandwidth
- 176 GB/s
Compute
- Stream processors
- 1,536
- TMUs
- 96
- ROPs
- 32
- FP32
- 2,703 GFLOPS
- FP64
- 675 GFLOPS
- Pixel fill rate
- 28.2 GP/s
- Texture fill rate
- 84.5 GT/s
Board
- TDP
- 250 W
- Bus interface
- PCIe 2.1 ×16
- Form factor
- desktop
- Launch MSRP
- 369 USD
Physical
- Architecture
- TeraScale 3
- Process
- 40 nm
- Transistors
- 2.64 billion
- Die size
- 389 mm²
- Series
- Radeon HD
- Launch date
- December 15, 2010
Not recorded by the source: generation, codename, sm count and base clock, or 2 further fields.
Die figure
Silicon, made visible
Die area is drawn against the largest recorded die in the catalog. Shader dots use a labeled, card-specific ratio so both early and modern GPUs remain legible.
Catalog context
Within its series, the Radeon HD 6970 (Cayman XT) ranks 11th of 121 for FP32 throughput and 11th of 183 for memory capacity. Its 250 W TDP is above the 75 W PCIe slot-power ceiling.
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