Radeon HD 6970 and Radeon RX 550 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6970 vs Radeon RX 550
Radeon HD 6970
2921
Radeon RX 550
2809
Radeon HD 6970
Radeon RX 550
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name
Cayman
Lexa
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2010
April 2017
Bus support
PCIe 2.0 x16
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Boost clock speed
880 MHz
1183 MHz
Core clock speed
-
1100 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,703.4 gflops
1,211 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
2,640 million
2,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
512
Power consumption (TDP)
550 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
84.48
37.86
Memory type
DDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1375 MHz
7000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
112.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12 (12_0)
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.4
Vulkan
-
1.2.131
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-