NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon HD 6530

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 AMD Radeon HD 6530

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6530 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 19.20GB/s)

1264 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6530 's Advantages

Lower TDP (39W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970 +653%

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6530

0.52 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

VS

Radeon HD 6530

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

May 2011

GeForce 900

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

19.20GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

5

1664

Shading Units

400

104

TMUs

20

56

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.200 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

13.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

520.0 GFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Redwood

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

Redwood PRO (215-0757004)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Board Design

148W

TDP

39W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

-

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

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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