NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT AGP vs AMD Radeon HD 6970

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT AGP

AMD Radeon HD 6970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 7600 GT AGP and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT AGP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (40W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce 7600 GT AGP

VS

Radeon HD 6970

Graphics Card

Jan 2007

Release Date

Dec 2010

GeForce 7 AGP

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

AGP 8x

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

24

-

Shading Units

1536

12

TMUs

96

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.480 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.16 GPixel/s

6.720 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

675.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

40W

TDP

250W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

1x Molex

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G73

GPU Name

Cayman

G73-VZ-N-B1

GPU Variant

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

Curie

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

90 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.177 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

125 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

2.1

OpenGL

4.4

N/A

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

3.0

Shader Model

5.0

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