
Radeon HD 6970 and HD Graphics - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6970 vs HD Graphics
Radeon HD 6970
2921
HD Graphics
147
Radeon HD 6970
HD Graphics
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Generation 7.0 (2012)
GPU code name
Cayman
Ivy Bridge GT1
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2010
April 2012
Bus support
PCIe 2.0 x16
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
-
Boost clock speed
880 MHz
1050 MHz
Core clock speed
-
166 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,703.4 gflops
15.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
22 nm
Number of transistors
2,640 million
392 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
48
Power consumption (TDP)
550 Watt
35 Watt
Texture fill rate
84.48
6.300
Memory type
DDR5
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
System Shared
Memory bus width
256 Bit
System Shared
Memory clock speed
1375 MHz
System Shared
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
No outputs
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
11.1 (11_0)
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.0
Shader Model
5.0
5.0
Vulkan
-
1.1.80
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-