NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 6950

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB AMD Radeon HD 6950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock1770MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

4736 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6950 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB +865%

21.75 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

2.253 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB

VS

Radeon HD 6950

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Dec 2010

GeForce 30

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1575 MHz

Base Clock

-

1770 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

608.3GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

48

SM Count

-

Compute Units

22

6144

Shading Units

1408

192

TMUs

88

96

ROPs

32

192

Tensor Cores

-

48

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

169.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

339.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

70.40 GTexel/s

21.75 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

21.75 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.253 TFLOPS

339.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

563.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Cayman

GA104-401-A1

GPU Variant

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 3

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Board Design

290W

TDP

200W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.0

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