AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 PCIe x1

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6970

NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 PCIe x1

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 710 PCIe x1 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 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1344 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 PCIe x1 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

Lower TDP (19W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970 +638%

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 710 PCIe x1

0.366 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

VS

GeForce GT 710 PCIe x1

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Mar 2014

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x1

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

192

96

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.816 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.26 GTexel/s

-

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

366.3 GFLOPS

675.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

15.26 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

19W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

GK208B

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GPU Variant

GK208-203-B1

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Kepler 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

1.02 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

87 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.5

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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