AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA GRID A100B
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Dec 2010
May 2020
Generation
Northern Islands
GRID
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1215 MHz
Base Clock
—
900 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1005 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
48GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM2e
Memory Bus
256bit
6144bit
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
1.87TB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
24
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Shading Units
1536
6912
TMUs
96
432
ROPs
32
192
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
192 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
48 MB
SM Count
—
108
Tensor Cores
—
432
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
28.16 GPixel/s
193.0 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
84.48 GTexel/s
434.2 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.703 TFLOPS
13.89 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
675.8 GFLOPS
6.947 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
55.57 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Cayman
GA100
GPU Variant
Cayman XT(215-0807007)
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Architecture
TeraScale 3
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
7 nm
Transistors
2.64 billion
54.2 billion
Die Size
389 mm²
826 mm²
Board Design
TDP
250W
400W
Suggested PSU
600 W
800 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
N/A
OpenGL
4.4
N/A
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Shader Model
5.0
N/A
CUDA
—
8.0
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.