AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 PCI

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6970

NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 PCI

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 610 PCI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)

1488 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 PCI 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

Lower TDP (29W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970 +1632%

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 610 PCI

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

VS

GeForce GT 610 PCI

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Apr 2012

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCI

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

667 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

10.67GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

-

SM Count

1

1536

Shading Units

48

96

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.620 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.480 GTexel/s

-

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

155.5 GFLOPS

675.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

12.96 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

29W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

GF119

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GPU Variant

GF119-300-A1

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

79 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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