Radeon HD 6970 and Radeon R7 260 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6970 vs Radeon R7 260
Radeon HD 6970
2921
Radeon R7 260
2978
Radeon HD 6970
Radeon R7 260
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code name
Cayman
Bonaire
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2010
December 2013
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
1 x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
880 MHz
1100 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,703.4 gflops
1,536 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,640 million
2,080 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
768
Power consumption (TDP)
550 Watt
115 Watt
Texture fill rate
84.48
48.00
Memory type
DDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1375 MHz
1625 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
104 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Eyefinity
1
1
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
+
DirectX
DirectX® 11
DirectX® 12
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.3
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
-
+
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
-
1
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-