MSI Radeon HD 6970 2GB Lightning Graphics Card R6970 LIGHTNING

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Graphics Processor

Cayman XT

Cores : TMUs : ROPs

MSI Radeon HD 6970 2GB Lightning

Manufacturer

MSI

Original Series

Radeon HD 6000

Based On

Radeon HD 6970

Custom Series

MSI Lightning

Cooling Solution

MSI TwinFrozr III

Released After

December 14th, 2010

GPU Model

Cayman XT (Cayman)

Architecture

AMD VLIW4 TeraScale 2

Fabrication Process

40 nm

Die Size

389 mm²

Transistors Count

2.6B

Transistors Density

6.8M ^TRAN/_mm²

Stream Cores

1536

Thread Processors

SIMD Engines

TMUs

ROPs

Base Clock

920 MHz (+4.5%)

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Effective Memory Clock

5500 Mbps

Memory Size

2048 MB

Memory Type

GDDR5

Memory Bus Width

256-bit

Memory Bandwidth

176.0 GB/s

Interface

PCI-Express 2.0 x16

TDP/TBP

250 W

Recommended PSU

600 W

Multi-GPU Support

4-way

DirectX

11.0

Vulkan

OpenGL

4.4

OpenCL

1.2

Pixel Fillrate

29.4 GPixels/s

Texture Fillrate

88.3 GTexel/s

Peak FP32

2.8 TFLOPS

FP32 Perf. per Watt

11.3 GFLOPS/W

FP32 Perf. per mm²

7.3 GFLOPS/mm²

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Custom Models 3

Model name	Power	Custom Series	Popularity
KUROUTOSHIKOU HD 6970 2GB RH6970-E2GHD/DP	1× 8-pin, 1× 6-pin		15%
MSI HD 6970 2GB R6970-2PM2D2GD5	1× 8-pin, 1× 6-pin		42%
MSI HD 6970 2GB Lightning R6970 LIGHTNING	1× 8-pin, 1× 6-pin	Lightning	100%

Radeon HD 6000 Series22

Model	Cores	Boost Clock	Memory Clock	Memory Config.
AMD Radeon HD 6990	3072	-	5 Gbps	8 GB GD5 256b
AMD Radeon HD 6870 (1600 Cores)	1600	-	4.8 Gbps	1 GB GD5 256b
AMD Radeon HD 6970	1536	-	5.5 Gbps	2 GB GD5 256b
AMD Radeon HD 6850 (1440 Cores)	1440	-	4 Gbps	1 GB GD5 256b
AMD Radeon HD 6950	1408	-	5 Gbps	2 GB GD5 256b
AMD Radeon HD 6930	1280	-	4.8 Gbps	1 GB GD5 256b
AMD Radeon HD 6870	1120	-	4.2 Gbps	1 GB GD5 256b
AMD Radeon HD 6850	1120	-	4 Gbps	1 GB GD5 256b
AMD Radeon HD 6770	800	-	4.8 Gbps	1 GB GD5 128b
AMD Radeon HD 6790	800	-	4.2 Gbps	1 GB GD5 256b
AMD Radeon HD 6770 (720 Cores)	720	-	2.7 Gbps	2 GB GD5 128b
AMD Radeon HD 6750	720	-	4.6 Gbps	1 GB GD5 128b
AMD Radeon HD 6570	480	-	4 Gbps	2 GB GD5 128b
AMD Radeon HD 6670	480	-	4 Gbps	1 GB GD5 128b
AMD Radeon HD 6510	400	-	1 Gbps	1 GB GD3 128b
AMD Radeon HD 6530	400	-	1.2 Gbps	1 GB GD3 128b
AMD Radeon HD 6390	320	-	1 Gbps	1 GB GD3 128b
AMD Radeon HD 6450	160	-	1.6 Gbps	1 GB D3 64b
AMD Radeon HD 6290	80	-	1.6 Gbps	1 GB GD3 64b
AMD Radeon HD 6350	80	-	800 Mbps	512 MB D3 64b
AMD Radeon HD 6230	80	-	1 Gbps	512 MB D2 64b
AMD Radeon HD 6250	80	-	1 Gbps	512 MB D2 64b

Cayman GPU Cards4

Model	Cores	Boost Clock	Memory Clock	Memory Config.
AMD Radeon HD 6990	3072	-	5 GB/s	8 GB GD5 256b
AMD Radeon HD 6970	1536	-	5.5 GB/s	2 GB GD5 256b
AMD Radeon HD 6950	1408	-	5 GB/s	2 GB GD5 256b
AMD Radeon HD 6930	1280	-	4.8 GB/s	1 GB GD5 256b