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Radeon HD 6970 Lightning / R6970 Lightning

Specifications of the MSI Radeon HD 6970 Lightning GPU


MSI Radeon HD 6970 Lightning (part number R6970 Lightning) is a desktop Graphics Processing Unit, based on AMD Radeon HD 6970, and built on 40 nm technology. The card has 940 MHz graphics clock frequency. It also has 1536 stream processors, 96 texture units, together with 32 color ROPs. The Radeon HD 6970 Lightning embeds 2 GB of GDDR5 memory, utilizing 256 bit bus. The memory is clocked at 1.375 GHz, which results in 176 GB/s memory bandwidth. The GPU supports PCI Express 2.1 interface, and requires 2 slots on the motherboard. This model uses up to 250 Watt of power, on a par with the reference design.

Below you will find more detailed specs of the MSI Radeon HD 6970 Lightning graphics card.

Name / Brand / Architecture

Manufacturer:MSI
Model:Radeon HD 6970 Lightning
Part number:R6970 Lightning
Based on:AMD Radeon HD 6970 [Compare]
Target market segment:Desktop
Die name:Cayman
Architecture:TeraScale 3 Unified Processing Architecture
Fabrication process:40 nm
Transistors:2.64 billion
Bus interface:PCI-E 2.1 x 16

Frequency

Graphics clock:940 MHz

Memory specifications

Memory size:2048 MB
Memory type:GDDR5
Memory clock:1375 MHz
Memory clock (effective):5.5 GHz
Memory interface width:256-bit
Memory bandwidth:176 GB/s

Cores / Texture

Color ROPs:32
Z/Stencil ROPs:128
Stream processors:1536
Texture units:96
RAMDACs:400 MHz
Decoders:Adobe Flash
H.264
MPEG-2 (SD & HD)
MPEG-4 Part 2 (DivX/Xvid)
MVC
VC-1

SLI / Crossfire

Maximum crossfire options:4-way

Electric characteristics

Maximum power draw:250 W

Video features

Multi-monitor:Up to 6 displays
Maximum digital resolution:2560 x 1600
Maximum VGA resolution:2048 x 1536
Anti-Aliasing technologies:24 x MSAA
24 x SSAA
Adaptive AA
EQAA
MLAA
HDMI:Yes
HDMI version:1.4a

Performance

Pixel fill rate:30.08 Gigapixels/s
Texture fill rate:90.24 Gigatexels/s
Single presision compute power:2887.68 GFLOPS
Double precision compute power:721.92 GFLOPS

External connectors

Standard display connectors:2 x Mini-DP
Dual-Link DVI-I
HDMI
Single-Link DVI-D
Power connectors:2 x 8-pin
Audio input for HDMI:Yes

Dimensions

Size (length x height):12.20 inches (310 mm) x 5 inches (127 mm)
Width:Dual-Slot

Other features / Support

Other features:AMD PowerTune
ATI/AMD PowerPlay
Direct Compute 11
HD3D Technology
HDCP
High Dynamic Range (HDR) Support
Open CL support:1.1
OpenGL support:4.1
DirectX support:11.0
Shader model:5.0
Windows driver support:Windows 7
Windows Vista
Windows XP
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