Radeon HD 6970 and Radeon R7 360 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6970 vs Radeon R7 360
Radeon HD 6970
2921
Radeon R7 360
3186
Radeon HD 6970
Radeon R7 360
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code name
Cayman
Tobago
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2010
June 2015
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
Bridgeless CrossFire
-
1
Boost clock speed
880 MHz
1000 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,703.4 gflops
1,613 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
100 Watt
Texture fill rate
84.48
50.40
Memory type
DDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1375 MHz
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
112 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Eyefinity
1
1
Number of Eyefinity displays
-
6
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
Vulkan
-
+
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
1
DDMA audio
-
+
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
-
1
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
+
TrueAudio
-
+
VCE
-
+
ZeroCore
-
-