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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 GB11 of 183 in Radeon HD
Power250 W5 of 157 by higher draw in Radeon HD
Stream processors1,53615 of 179 in Radeon HD
Launch price$36916 of 75 in Radeon HD

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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.

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.

389 mm² die · 1,536 shadersDie area drawn to scale against the catalog maximum of 1,540 square millimeters. Each dot = 16 shaders.389 mm² die · 1,536 shadersEach dot = 16 shadersDashed frame = largest catalog die (1,540 mm²)

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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