NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

AMD Radeon HD 6970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5070 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 5070 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (532.6GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

4864 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (220W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5070 +1093%

32.26 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5070

VS

Radeon HD 6970

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Dec 2010

GeForce 50

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

-

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

532.6GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

24

50

SM Count

-

6400

Shading Units

1536

200

TMUs

96

64

ROPs

32

200

Tensor Cores

-

50

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

40 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

161.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.16 GPixel/s

504.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

32.26 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

32.26 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

504.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

675.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

220W

TDP

250W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.1a

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

GB205

GPU Name

Cayman

GB205

GPU Variant

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

40 nm

Unknown

Transistors

2.64 billion

Unknown

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

10.1

CUDA

-

6.8

Shader Model

5.0

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