AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

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AMD Radeon HD 6970 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1201MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970 +9%

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

2.46 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

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GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Nov 2015

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1176 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1201 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

1024

96

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.43 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.86 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.460 TFLOPS

675.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.86 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

GM206

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GPU Variant

GTX 960 OEM

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

Unknown

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

5.0

Shader Model

6.7

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