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GPU Comparison
AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280
AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280
VS
AMD Radeon HD 6970
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 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 1GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)
1296 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages
Lower TDP (236W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 6970
+334%
2.703 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 280
0.622 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 6970
VS
GeForce GTX 280
Graphics Card
Dec 2010
Release Date
Jun 2008
Northern Islands
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
-
-
Boost Clock
-
1375 MHz
Memory Clock
1107 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
512bit
176.0GB/s
Bandwidth
141.7GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
30
24
Compute Units
-
1536
Shading Units
240
96
TMUs
80
32
ROPs
32
-
Tensor Cores
-
-
RT Cores
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
28.16 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
19.26 GPixel/s
84.48 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
48.16 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
-
2.703 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
622.1 GFLOPS
675.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
77.76 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
Cayman
GPU Name
GT200
Cayman XT (215-0807007)
GPU Variant
G200-300-A2
TeraScale 3
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
65 nm
2.64 billion
Transistors
1.4 billion
389 mm²
Die Size
576 mm²
Board Design
250W
TDP
236W
600 W
Suggested PSU
550 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
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
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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