AMD Radeon HD 6970
VS
AMD Fiji
AMD Radeon HD 6970
VS
AMD Fiji

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Radeon HD 6970 and AMD Fiji. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

386
Place in performance rating
not rated
56.19
Value for money (0-100)
no data
Terascale 2
Architecture
GCN 3.0
Cayman
Code name
Fiji
Desktop
Type
Desktop
14 December 2010 (10 years ago)
Release date
no data
$369
Launch price (MSRP)
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$217 (0.6x MSRP)
Price now
$26
reference
Design
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3.34
Value for money
no data
Cayman
GPU code name
Fiji
Desktop
Market segment
Desktop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Radeon HD 6970 and AMD Fiji based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

1536
Pipelines
4096
880 MHz
Boost Clock
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2,640 million
Transistor count
8,900 million
40 nm
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
550 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
no data
84.48
Texture fill rate
no data
2,703.4 gflops
Floating-point performance
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1536
Pipelines / CUDA cores
4096
880 MHz
Boost clock speed
no data
2,640 million
Number of transistors
8,900 million
550 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
no data

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Radeon HD 6970 and AMD Fiji.

PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface
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267 mm
Length
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1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Supplementary power connectors
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PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus support
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Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics AMD Radeon HD 6970 and AMD Fiji can be seen in this section.

DDR5
Memory type
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2 GB
Maximum RAM amount
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256 Bit
Memory bus width
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1375 MHz
Memory clock speed
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Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Radeon HD 6970 and AMD Fiji, the size and number of monitors.

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Display Connectors
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1
Eyefinity
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+
HDMI
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-
DisplayPort support
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Technologies

The difference between AMD Radeon HD 6970 and AMD Fiji is the additional functionality.

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AppAcceleration
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1
CrossFire
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-
HD3D
no data
-
PowerTune
no data
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TrueAudio
no data
-
ZeroCore
no data
-
Enduro
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API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Radeon HD 6970 and AMD Fiji. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

DirectX® 11
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
5.0
Shader Model
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1.2
OpenCL
no data
-
Mantle
no data

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Radeon HD 6970 and AMD Fiji graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD Radeon HD 6970 or AMD Fiji good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Radeon HD 6970
AMD Fiji
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Radeon HD 6970
AMD Fiji
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Radeon HD 6970
AMD Fiji
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Radeon HD 6970
AMD Fiji
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Radeon HD 6970
AMD Fiji
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of AMD Radeon HD 6970

12.67% faster in synthetic tests

Advantages of AMD Fiji

Cheaper ($26 vs $217 (0.6x MSRP))

More pipelines (4096 vs 1536)

Finer manufacturing process technology (28 nm vs 40 nm)

So, AMD Radeon HD 6970 or AMD Fiji?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon HD 6970 .

AMD Radeon HD 6970 versus AMD Fiji performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

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