AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI250X
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Dec 2010
Nov 2021
Generation
Northern Islands
Radeon Instinct
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1600 MHz
Base Clock
-
1000 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1700 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
128GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM2e
Memory Bus
256bit
8192bit
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
3277GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
24
220
Shading Units
1536
14080
TMUs
96
880
ROPs
32
0
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
16 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
28.16 GPixel/s
0 MPixel/s
Texture Rate
84.48 GTexel/s
1496 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.703 TFLOPS
47.87 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
675.8 GFLOPS
47.87 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
383.0 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Cayman
Aldebaran
GPU Variant
Cayman XT(215-0807007)
Aldebaran XT
Architecture
TeraScale 3
CDNA 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
6 nm
Transistors
2.64 billion
58.2 billion
Die Size
389 mm²
Unknown
Board Design
TDP
250W
500W
Suggested PSU
600 W
900 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
2x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
N/A
OpenGL
4.4
N/A
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Shader Model
5.0
N/A