GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon HD 6970 X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 1050 Advantages
Boost Clock1455MHz
Lower TDP (75W vs 375W)
Radeon HD 6970 X2 Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 112.1GB/s)
896 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1050
1862
Radeon HD 6970 X2
+45%
2703
Graphics Card
Oct 2016
Release Date
Unknown
GeForce 10
Generation
Northern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1354 MHz
Base Clock
-
1455 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1752 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
112.1GB/s
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
24
5
SM Count
-
640
Shading Units
1536
40
TMUs
96
32
ROPs
32
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
46.56 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
28.16 GPixel/s
58.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
84.48 GTexel/s
29.10 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
1.862 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.703 TFLOPS
58.20 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
75W
TDP
375W
250 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.0
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
3x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GP107
GPU Name
Antilles
GP107-300-A1
GPU Variant
Antilles XT
(215-0807027)
(215-0807027)
Pascal
Architecture
TeraScale 3
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
40 nm
3.3 billion
Transistors
2.64 billion
132 mm²
Die Size
389 mm²
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
6.1
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
5.0