Radeon HD 6870 X2 vs 5970 |
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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| Higher clock speed | 900 MHz | vs | 725 MHz | Around 25% higher clock speed | |||
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| Higher pixel rate | 57.6 GPixel/s | vs | 46.4 GPixel/s | Around 25% higher pixel rate | |||
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| Significantly more shading units | 3,200 | vs | 2,240 | 960 more shading units | |||
| More texture mapping units | 160 | vs | 112 | 48 more texture mapping units | |||
| Better floating-point performance | 4,640 GFLOPS | vs | 4,032 GFLOPS | More than 15% better floating-point performance | |||
| More compute units | 40 | vs | 28 | 12 more compute units | |||
| Slightly higher texture rate | 116 GTexel/s | vs | 100.8 GTexel/s | More than 15% higher texture rate | |||
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Features Key features of the Radeon HD 6870 X2 vs 5970
memory bandwidth Rate at which data can be read from or stored in onboard memory
pixel rate Number of pixels a graphics card can render to the screen every second
texture rate Speed at which a graphics card can perform texture mapping
floating point performance How fast the gpu can crunch numbers
shading units Subcomponents of the gpu, these run in parallel to enable fast pixel shading
texture mapping units Built into each gpu, these resize and rotate bitmaps for texturing scenes
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Specifications Full list of technical specs
gpu | Radeon HD 6870 X2 | vs | 5970 |
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| GPU brand | AMD | ATI | |
| GPU name | Barts XT | Hemlock | |
| Market | Desktop | Desktop | |
| Clock speed | 900 MHz | 725 MHz | |
| Is dual GPU | Yes | Yes | |
| Reference card | None | None | |
raw performance | |||
| Shading units | 2,240 | 3,200 | |
| Texture mapping units | 112 | 160 | |
| Render output processors | 64 | 64 | |
| Compute units | 28 | 40 | |
| Pixel rate | 57.6 GPixel/s | 46.4 GPixel/s | |
| Texture rate | 100.8 GTexel/s | 116 GTexel/s | |
| Floating-point performance | 4,032 GFLOPS | 4,640 GFLOPS | |
memory | Radeon HD 6870 X2 | vs | 5970 |
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| Memory clock speed | 1,050 MHz | 1,000 MHz | |
| Effective memory clock speed | 4,200 MHz | 4,000 MHz | |
| Memory bus | 512 bit | 512 bit | |
| Memory | 2,048 MB | 2,048 MB | |
| Memory type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 | |
| Memory bandwidth | 268.8 GB/s | 256 GB/s | |
noise and power | |||
| TDP | 300W | 294W | |
