AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Dec 2010
Feb 2024
Generation
Northern Islands
Quadro Ada
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
2000 MHz
Base Clock
—
1620 MHz
Boost Clock
—
2130 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
16GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
128bit
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
256.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
24
—
Shading Units
1536
2816
TMUs
96
88
ROPs
32
48
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
12 MB
SM Count
—
22
Tensor Cores
—
88
RT Cores
—
22
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
28.16 GPixel/s
102.2 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
84.48 GTexel/s
187.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.703 TFLOPS
12.00 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
675.8 GFLOPS
187.4 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
12.00 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Cayman
AD107
GPU Variant
Cayman XT(215-0807007)
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Architecture
TeraScale 3
Ada Lovelace
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
5 nm
Transistors
2.64 billion
18.9 billion
Die Size
389 mm²
159 mm²
Board Design
TDP
250W
70W
Suggested PSU
600 W
250 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.3
Shader Model
5.0
6.7
CUDA
—
8.9
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
—
8,147
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
—
3,601
OctaneBench
—
295
3DMark Speed Way
—
1,970
Blender
—
2,649
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.