AMD Radeon HD 6970

The new AMD Radeon HD 6970 is a High Performance Graphics Card .It is the successor of the popular AMD Radeo 5870 graphics card .

The new AMD Radeon HD 6970 packs 2.64 Billion transistors and 1,536 streaming processors running at 880MHz core clock speed on the 40nm process. There are 96 texture units, 32 ROPs and 128 Z-Stencil. There is 2GB of GDDR5 running at 5.5GHz on a 256-bit memory bus. This provides 176GB/sec of memory bandwidth. The PowerTune Maximum Limit has been set at 250W and idle power drawn is 20W.

AMD Radeon HD 6970 graphics card specifications :

• Stream Processors : 1536
• Texture Units : 96
• ROPs : 32
• Core Clock : 880 MHz
• Shader Architechture : VLIW4
• Memory Clock : 1.375GHz (5.5GHz effective) GDDR5
• Memory Bus Width : 256-bit
• Frame Buffer : 2GB
• FP64 : 1/4
• TDP : 250 W
• Idle Power : 20W
• Transistor Count : 2.64B
• Manufacturing Process : TSMC 40nm
• Power connectors : 8 pin + 6 pin
• Display Output : 2 DVI + 2x mDP + HDMI

AMD Radeon HD 6970 price

AMD Radeon HD 6970 Price in India : The new AMD Radeon HD 6970 graphics card price will be around Rs.20,000 . It is not yet launched in India .