AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

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AMD Radeon HD 6970 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 84.10GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1518MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970 +15%

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

2.332 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

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GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

May 2018

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1392 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1518 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1752 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

96bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

84.10GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

6

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

768

96

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

36.43 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.86 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

36.43 GFLOPS

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.332 TFLOPS

675.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

72.86 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

GP107

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GPU Variant

GP107-301-K1-A1

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

3.3 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

132 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

75W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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