AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9300 SE

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6970

NVIDIA GeForce 9300 SE

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 9300 SE to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

1528 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970 +13415%

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce 9300 SE

0.02 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

VS

GeForce 9300 SE

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Jun 2008

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

-

SM Count

1

1536

Shading Units

8

96

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

16 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.160 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.160 GTexel/s

-

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

20.80 GFLOPS

675.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

250W

TDP

Unknown

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

G98S

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

86 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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