Radeon HD 7970 and Radeon HD 6570 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7970 vs Radeon HD 6570
Radeon HD 7970
5405
Radeon HD 6570
572
Radeon HD 7970
Radeon HD 6570
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Tahiti XT
Turks
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2011
April 2011
Bus support
PCIe 2.1 x16
PCIe 2.1 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Boost clock speed
925 MHz
650 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,789 gflops
624.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
716 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
480
Power consumption (TDP)
300 Watt
40 Watt
Texture fill rate
118.4
15.60
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1375 MHz
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
264 GB/s
28.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Eyefinity
+
1
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
+
DirectX
DirectX® 11
DirectX® 11
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
1
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
UVD
-
+
ZeroCore
-
-