NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs AMD Radeon HD 6990

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 AMD Radeon HD 6990

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6990 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1683MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1070 +153%

6.463 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6990

2.55 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070

VS

Radeon HD 6990

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Mar 2011

GeForce 10

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1683 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

15

SM Count

-

Compute Units

24

1920

Shading Units

1536

120

TMUs

96

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

107.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

26.56 GPixel/s

202.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

79.68 GTexel/s

101.0 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.463 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.550 TFLOPS

202.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

637.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Antilles

GP104-200-A1

GPU Variant

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

40 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

375W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

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

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