Radeon R9 390 and Radeon HD 6970 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 390 vs Radeon HD 6970
Radeon R9 390
9182
Radeon HD 6970
2921
Radeon R9 390
Radeon HD 6970
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Grenada
Cayman
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2015
December 2010
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin, 1 x 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Bridgeless CrossFire
1
-
Boost clock speed
1000 MHz
880 MHz
Floating-point performance
5,120 gflops
2,703.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
2,640 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
1536
Power consumption (TDP)
275 Watt
550 Watt
Texture fill rate
160.0
84.48
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR5
Maximum RAM amount
0 MB
2 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth
384 GB/s
-
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Eyefinity
1
1
Number of Eyefinity displays
6
-
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
+
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
DirectX® 11
Mantle
+
-
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
6.3
5.0
Vulkan
+
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
1
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
+
-
TrueAudio
+
-
VCE
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-