Radeon HD 6970 and Radeon X1600 PRO - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6970 vs Radeon X1600 PRO
Radeon HD 6970
2921
Radeon X1600 PRO
101
Radeon HD 6970
Radeon X1600 PRO
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
R500 (2005−2007)
GPU code name
Cayman
RV530
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2010
October 2007
Bus support
PCIe 2.0 x16
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Boost clock speed
880 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
500 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,703.4 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
90 nm
Number of transistors
2,640 million
157 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
-
Power consumption (TDP)
550 Watt
41 Watt
Texture fill rate
84.48
2.000
Memory type
DDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
256 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1375 MHz
780 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
12.48 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
9.0c (9_3)
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.4
2.0
Shader Model
5.0
3.0
Vulkan
-
N/A
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-