AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Ti

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AMD Radeon HD 6970 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages

Lower TDP (250W vs 400W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Ti 's Advantages

Boost Clock2610MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (678.4GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

12544 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 Ti +2619%

73.5 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

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GeForce RTX 4080 Ti

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Unknown

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2340 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2610 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1325 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

678.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

110

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

14080

96

TMUs

440

32

ROPs

144

-

Tensor Cores

440

-

RT Cores

110

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

80 MB

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

375.8 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1148 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

73.50 TFLOPS

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

73.50 TFLOPS

675.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1148 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

AD102

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GPU Variant

AD102-225-A1

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

5 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

76.3 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

609 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

400W

600 W

Suggested PSU

800 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.9

5.0

Shader Model

6.7

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