AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost

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AMD Radeon HD 6970 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost 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 144.2GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1032MHz

Lower TDP (134W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970 +70%

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost

1.585 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

VS

GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Mar 2013

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

980 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1032 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

144.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

768

96

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

512 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.51 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

66.05 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.585 TFLOPS

675.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

66.05 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

GK106

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GPU Variant

GK106-240-A1

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

2.54 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

221 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

134W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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