AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA P102 101

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 and 10GB VRAM P102 101 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA P102 101 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1670MHz

More VRAM (10GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970

2.703 TFLOPS

P102 101 +295%

10.69 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

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P102 101

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Jan 2018

Northern Islands

Generation

Mining GPUs

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1557 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1670 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

10GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

320bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

25

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

3200

96

TMUs

200

32

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

0 MB

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

133.6 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

334.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

167.0 GFLOPS

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.69 TFLOPS

675.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

334.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

GP102

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GPU Variant

GP102-101-A1

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

16 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

11.8 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

471 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

250W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

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

6.1

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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