NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (148W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970 +45%

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970 X2

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

VS

Radeon HD 6970 X2

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 900

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

24

1664

Shading Units

1536

104

TMUs

96

56

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.16 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Antilles

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Board Design

148W

TDP

375W

300 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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