Radeon HD 6970 and Radeon R5 230 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6970 vs Radeon R5 230
Radeon HD 6970
2921
Radeon R5 230
228
Radeon HD 6970
Radeon R5 230
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Cayman
Caicos
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2010
April 2014
Bus support
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x4
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
N/A
Boost clock speed
880 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
2,703.4 gflops
200.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2,640 million
370 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
160
Power consumption (TDP)
550 Watt
19 Watt
Texture fill rate
84.48
5.000
Memory type
DDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1375 MHz
-
Memory bandwidth
-
10.67 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Eyefinity
1
1
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
DirectX® 11
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.4
Shader Model
5.0
5.0
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
1
DDMA audio
-
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerPlay
-
+
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-