Comparison of Radeon HD 6970 and Radeon HD 6950

Attribute	Radeon HD 6970 ×	Radeon HD 6950 ×
GPU
Release year (year)	2010	2011
Reference card	-	AMD Radeon HD 6950 800 MHz 2 GB
GPU brand	AMD	AMD
GPU name	Cayman XT	Cayman PRO
Market	Desktop	Desktop
Clock speed (MHz)	880	880
Is dual GPU	-	-
Model	Radeon HD 6970	Radeon HD 6950
Memory
Memory (MB)	2,048	2,048
Memory bandwidth (GB/s)	176	166.4
Memory bus (bit)	256	256
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Memory clock speed (MHz)	1,375	1,300
Effective memory clock speed (MHz)	5,500	5,200
Noise and power
TDP (W)	250	200
Load power consumption (W)	370	326
Idle power consumption (W)	120	117
Load noise level (dB)	53.2	48.2
Idle noise level (dB)	42.7	42.7
Raw performance
Pixel rate (GPixel/s)	28.16	28.16
Render output processors	32	32
Texture mapping units	96	88
Shading units	1,536	1,408
Floating-point performance (GFLOPS)	2,703	2,478
Compute units	24	22
Texture rate (GTexel/s)	84.48	77.44
Benchmarks
Metro: Last Light	-	7.5
Battlefield 3	57	30
Battlefield 4	90	-
Face detection (mPixels/s)	18.68	17.01
T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0)	3351.26	3358.26
Manhattan (GFXBench 3.0)	3706.33	3714.44
Bitcoin mining (mHash/s)	274.06	251.55
Sky Diver Factor	255.16	242.26
Fire Strike Factor	37.18	35.2