AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6970

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1468MHz

Lower TDP (30W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970 +139%

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1030

1.127 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

VS

GeForce GT 1030

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

May 2017

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1228 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1468 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

48.06GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

-

SM Count

3

1536

Shading Units

384

96

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.49 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

35.23 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

17.62 GFLOPS

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1127 GFLOPS

675.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

35.23 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

30W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

GP108

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GPU Variant

GP108-300-A1

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

1.8 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

74 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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