
AMD Radeon HD 6970 Specification
Specification
Manufacturer: ATI
Specs status:Official
Series: Radeon HD 6000
GPU Model: Cayman XT
Release Date: Q4 2010
Interface: PCI-E 2.1 x16
Core Clock: 880 MHz
Memory Clock: 1375 (5500) MHz
Memory Bandwidth: 176 GB/sec
Shader OperAMDons: ? MOperAMDons/sec
Pixel Fill Rate: 28.5 GPixels/sec
Texture Fill Rate: 71.2 GTexels/sec
Vertex OperAMDons: ? MVertices/sec
Details
Max Power Draw: 300 W
Noise Level: Loud
Memory Size: 2048 MB
Memory Type: GDDR5
Memory Bus Type: 64×4 (256 bit)
DirectX: 11.0
OpenGL: 4.0
PS/VS Version: 5.0/5.0
Process: 40 nm
Fragment Pipelines: 1536
Vertex Pipelines: 0
Texture Units: 96
Raster: 32
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