NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090D vs AMD Radeon HD 6970

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090D

AMD Radeon HD 6970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090D 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 RTX 4090D 's Advantages

Released 13 years late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1008GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

13056 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages

Lower TDP (250W vs 425W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4090D +2620%

73.54 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4090D

VS

Radeon HD 6970

Graphics Card

Dec 2023

Release Date

Dec 2010

GeForce 40

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2280 MHz

Base Clock

-

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

1008GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

24

114

SM Count

-

14592

Shading Units

1536

456

TMUs

96

176

ROPs

32

456

Tensor Cores

-

114

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

72 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

443.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.16 GPixel/s

1149 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

73.54 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

73.54 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

1149 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

675.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

425W

TDP

250W

800 W

Suggested PSU

600 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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

Cayman

AD102-250-A1

GPU Variant

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

40 nm

76.3 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

609 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

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

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.0

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