AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

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AMD Radeon HD 6970 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition 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 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 133.9GB/s)

1088 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (215W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970 +148%

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

1.089 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

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GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Unknown

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

837 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1280MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

320bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

133.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

14

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

448

96

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

40

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

640 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.02 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.05 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1089 GFLOPS

675.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

GT215

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GPU Variant

GT215-400-A2

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

215W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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

2.0

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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