AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA CMP 170HX

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 and 16GB VRAM CMP 170HX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA CMP 170HX 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1410MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1493GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

2944 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970

2.703 TFLOPS

CMP 170HX +367%

12.63 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

VS

CMP 170HX

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Sep 2021

Northern Islands

Generation

Mining GPUs

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1140 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1410 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1458 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2e

256bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

1493GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

70

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

4480

96

TMUs

280

32

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

280

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

8 MB

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

180.5 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

394.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

50.53 TFLOPS

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.63 TFLOPS

675.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

6.317 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

GA100

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GPU Variant

GA100-105F-A1

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

250W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

N/A

4.4

OpenGL

N/A

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

8.0

5.0

Shader Model

N/A

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