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Radeon HD 6970 vs Radeon R9 380 2G

Intro

The Radeon HD 6970 comes with clock speeds of 880 MHz on the GPU, and 1375 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1536 SPUs as well as 96 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 380 2G, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 970 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a frequency of 1425 MHz on this particular model. It features 1792 SPUs along with 112 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon R9 380 2G 8850 points
Radeon HD 6970 3470 points
Difference: 5380 (155%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 380 2G 190 Watts
Radeon HD 6970 250 Watts
Difference: 60 Watts (32%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R9 380 2G should theoretically be a little bit better than the Radeon HD 6970 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 2G 182400 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6970 176000 MB/sec
Difference: 6400 (4%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 380 2G should be quite a bit (about 29%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 6970. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 2G 108640 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6970 84480 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 24160 (29%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 380 2G should be just a bit (about 10%) better at AA than the Radeon HD 6970, and should be able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 2G 31040 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6970 28160 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 2880 (10%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model Radeon HD 6970 Radeon R9 380 2G
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year December 2010 June 2015
Code Name Cayman XT Antigua PRO
Memory 2048 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 880 MHz 970 MHz
Memory Speed 5500 MHz 5700 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 250 watts 190 watts
Bandwidth 176000 MB/sec 182400 MB/sec
Texel Rate 84480 Mtexels/sec 108640 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 28160 Mpixels/sec 31040 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1536 1792
Texture Mapping Units 96 112
Render Output Units 32 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 2640 million 5000 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 ×16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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Radeon HD 6970

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Radeon R9 380 2G

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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