Radeon HD 6970 and FirePro W7000 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6970 vs FirePro W7000
Radeon HD 6970
2921
FirePro W7000
4417
Radeon HD 6970
FirePro W7000
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
Cayman
Pitcairn
Market segment
Desktop
Workstation
Release date
December 2010
June 2012
Bus support
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
880 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
950 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,703.4 gflops
2,432 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,640 million
2,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
550 Watt
350 Watt
Texture fill rate
84.48
76.00
Memory type
DDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1375 MHz
4800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
153.6 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
4x DisplayPort
Eyefinity
1
-
DisplayPort count
-
4
Dual-link DVI support
-
1
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12 (11_1)
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
-
1.2.131
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
StereoOutput3D
-
1
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-