NVIDIA GeForce GT 340 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 6970

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 340 OEM

AMD Radeon HD 6970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 340 OEM 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 GT 340 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (69W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 27.20GB/s)

1440 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 340 OEM

0.257 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970 +951%

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 340 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 6970

Graphics Card

Feb 2010

Release Date

Dec 2010

GeForce 300

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

850 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

27.20GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

24

12

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

1536

32

TMUs

96

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.16 GPixel/s

17.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

-

257.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

675.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

69W

TDP

250W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GT215

GPU Name

Cayman

GT215-301-A3

GPU Variant

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.727 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

144 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.2

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

5.0

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