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Radeon HD 6970

Specifications of the AMD Radeon HD 6970 GPU


AMD Radeon HD 6970 desktop Graphics Processing Unit was introduced in December 2010. The GPU makes use of TeraScale 3 Unified Processing architecture, and it is manufactured on 40 nm technology. The card has graphics clocked at 880 MHz. Furthermore, it has 1536 stream processors, 32 color ROPs, along with 96 texture units. The Radeon HD 6970 incorporates 2 GB of GDDR5 memory. The memory utilizes 256 bit bus, and operates at 1.375 GHz. This allows the card to have 176 GB/s memory bandwidth. The GPU supports PCI Express 2.1 interface, and requires 2 slots on the motherboard. This model has the maximum power draw of 250 Watt.

More detailed specifications of the AMD Radeon HD 6970 graphics card are available below.

Name / Brand / Architecture

Manufacturer:AMD
Model:Radeon HD 6970
Reference card?:Yes
Target market segment:Desktop
Die name:Cayman
Architecture:TeraScale 3 Unified Processing Architecture
Fabrication process:40 nm
Transistors:2.** billion
Bus interface:PCI-E 2.1 x 16
Launch date:December 2010
Price at launch:$369

Frequency

Graphics clock:880 MHz

Memory specifications

Memory size:2048 MB
Memory type:GDDR5
Memory clock:1375 MHz
Memory clock (effective):5.5 GHz
Memory interface width:**-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.2**
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:**0 x 1600
Maximum DP resolution:**0 x 1600
Maximum DVI resolution:**0 x 1600
Maximum HDMI resolution:1920 x 1200
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:28.16 Gigapixels/s
Texture fill rate:84.48 Gigatexels/s
Single presision compute power:2703.36 GFLOPS
Double precision compute power:675.84 GFLOPS

External connectors

Standard display connectors:DisplayPort 1.2
Dual-Link DVI
HDMI
VGA
Power connectors:1 x 6-pin
1 x 8-pin
Audio input for HDMI:Yes

Dimensions

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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