AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6950

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5070 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6950 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 285W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (894.7GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

7552 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950

2.253 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5070 Ti +1904%

45.16 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

VS

GeForce RTX 5070 Ti

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Jan 2025

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2235 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

2205 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR7

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

894.7GB/s

Render Config

22

Compute Units

-

SM Count

70

1408

Shading Units

8960

88

TMUs

280

32

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

280

-

RT Cores

70

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

322.6 GPixel/s

70.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

705.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

45.16 TFLOPS

2.253 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

45.16 TFLOPS

563.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

705.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

285W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.1a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

GB203

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

GPU Variant

GB203-200-A1

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

0

2.64 billion

Transistors

Unknown

389 mm²

Die Size

377 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

10.1

5.0

Shader Model

6.8

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