AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA P106 090

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6970

NVIDIA P106 090

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 and 3GB VRAM P106 090 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages

768 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA P106 090 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1531MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (75W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970 +14%

2.703 TFLOPS

P106 090

2.352 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

VS

P106 090

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Jul 2017

Northern Islands

Generation

Mining GPUs

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1354 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1531 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

-

SM Count

6

1536

Shading Units

768

96

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

48

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

73.49 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

73.49 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

36.74 GFLOPS

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.352 TFLOPS

675.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

73.49 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

75W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

GP106

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GPU Variant

GP106-090-A1

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

16 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

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

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs AMD Radeon Pro W6800X

2

AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs ATI Radeon HD 5670

3

AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs ATI FireMV 2400 PCIe x1

4

AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

5

AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti

6

AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs ATI FirePro V8750

7

AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs AMD Radeon PRO W7700

8

AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512

9

AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

10

AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Z

Related News

1

CXMT Reportedly Achieves 80% Yield in DDR5 Production

2

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N

3

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market

4

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

5

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

6

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

7

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

8

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

9

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

10

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage