AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6970

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 and 1792MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1792GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 112.9GB/s)

1344 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970 +551%

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 OEM

0.415 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

VS

GeForce GTX 260 OEM

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Dec 2009

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1008 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1792MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

448bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.9GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

-

SM Count

24

1536

Shading Units

192

96

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

28

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.50 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.15 GTexel/s

-

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

414.7 GFLOPS

675.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

51.84 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

182W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

GT200B

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GPU Variant

G200-103-B2

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

470 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

1.3

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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