NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock2610MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

6144 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (285W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB +1383%

40.09 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970 X2

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB

VS

Radeon HD 6970 X2

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 40

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2310 MHz

Base Clock

-

2610 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

504.2GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

60

SM Count

-

Compute Units

24

7680

Shading Units

1536

240

TMUs

96

80

ROPs

32

240

Tensor Cores

-

60

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

48 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

208.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.16 GPixel/s

626.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

40.09 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

40.09 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

626.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

Antilles

AD104-400-A1

GPU Variant

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

40 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

295 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Board Design

285W

TDP

375W

600 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.9

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.0

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