AMD · TeraScale 3 · 2010
Radeon HD 6970 (Cayman XT)
Memory2 GB
11 of 183 in Radeon HD
Power250 W
5 of 157 by higher draw in Radeon HD
Shaders1,536
15 of 179 in Radeon HD
Launch price$369
16 of 75 in Radeon HD
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.
Specifications
Memory
- Capacity
- 2 GB
- Type
- GDDR5
- Bus width
- 256 bit
- Memory clock
- 1,375 MHz
- Bandwidth
- 176 GB/s
Compute
- Shaders
- 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.
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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