AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA NVS 310

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6970 NVIDIA NVS 310

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 and 512MB VRAM NVS 310 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 14.00GB/s)

1488 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA NVS 310 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

Lower TDP (20W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970 +2603%

2.703 TFLOPS

NVS 310

0.1 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

VS

NVS 310

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Jun 2012

Northern Islands

Generation

NVS

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

875 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

14.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

1

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

48

96

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.046 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.184 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

100.4 GFLOPS

675.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

8.368 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

GF119

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GPU Variant

GF119-825-A1

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

79 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

20W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

2x DisplayPort

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

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

2.1

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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