NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell vs AMD Radeon HD 6970
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Mar 2025
Dec 2010
Generation
Blackwell PRO W
Northern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1590 MHz
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Boost Clock
2617 MHz
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Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
96GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR7
GDDR5
Memory Bus
512bit
256bit
Bandwidth
1.79TB/s
176.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
188
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Shading Units
24064
1536
TMUs
752
96
ROPs
192
32
Tensor Cores
752
—
RT Cores
188
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L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
128 MB
512 KB
Compute Units
—
24
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
502.5 GPixel/s
28.16 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
1968.0 GTexel/s
84.48 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
126.0 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
126.0 TFLOPS
2.703 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1.968 TFLOPS
675.8 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GB202
Cayman
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
TeraScale 3
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
5 nm
40 nm
Transistors
92.2 billion
2.64 billion
Die Size
750 mm²
389 mm²
GPU Variant
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Cayman XT(215-0807007)
Board Design
TDP
600W
250W
Suggested PSU
1000 W
600 W
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 2.1b
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.4
N/A
CUDA
12.0
—
Shader Model
6.9
5.0
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
42,269
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
27,891
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3DMark Speed Way
15,642
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▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.