AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Aug 2017
Unknown
Generation
Vega
Northern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1156 MHz
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Boost Clock
1471 MHz
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Memory Clock
800 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
2GB
Memory Type
HBM2
GDDR5
Memory Bus
2048bit
256bit
Bandwidth
409.6GB/s
176.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
56
24
Shading Units
3584
1536
TMUs
224
96
ROPs
64
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
4 MB
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
94.14 GPixel/s
28.16 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
329.5 GTexel/s
84.48 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
21.09 TFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
10.54 TFLOPS
2.703 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
659.0 GFLOPS
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Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Vega 10
Antilles
GPU Variant
Vega 10 XL(215-0894216)
Antilles XT(215-0807027)
Architecture
GCN 5.0
TeraScale 3
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Process Size
14 nm
40 nm
Transistors
12.5 billion
2.64 billion
Die Size
495 mm²
389 mm²
Board Design
TDP
210W
375W
Suggested PSU
550 W
750 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
3x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
OpenCL
2.1
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
N/A
Shader Model
6.4
5.0
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
6,783
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
3,310
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