NVIDIA NVS 300 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970

VS

NVIDIA NVS 300

AMD Radeon HD 6970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM NVS 300 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA NVS 300 's Advantages

Lower TDP (18W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 12.64GB/s)

1520 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

NVS 300

0.039 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970 +6830%

2.703 TFLOPS

NVS 300

VS

Radeon HD 6970

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Dec 2010

NVS

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

790 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.64GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

24

2

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

1536

8

TMUs

96

4

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.080 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.16 GPixel/s

4.160 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

-

39.36 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

675.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

18W

TDP

250W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DMS-59

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GT218

GPU Name

Cayman

GT218-670-B1

GPU Variant

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.26 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

57 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.2

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

5.0

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