AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6970

NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 and 32GB VRAM RTX 5000 Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock2550MHz

More VRAM (32GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

11264 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970

2.703 TFLOPS

RTX 5000 Ada Generation +2315%

65.28 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

VS

RTX 5000 Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Aug 2023

Northern Islands

Generation

Quadro Ada

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1155 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2550 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

576.0GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

-

SM Count

100

1536

Shading Units

12800

96

TMUs

400

32

ROPs

176

-

Tensor Cores

400

-

RT Cores

100

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

72 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

448.8 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1020 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

65.28 TFLOPS

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

65.28 TFLOPS

675.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1020 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

250W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

AD102

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GPU Variant

AD102

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

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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