AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA RTX 5880 Ada Generation

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6970 NVIDIA RTX 5880 Ada Generation

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 and 48GB VRAM RTX 5880 Ada Generation 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 285W)

NVIDIA RTX 5880 Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock2460MHz

More VRAM (48GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (864.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

12544 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970

2.703 TFLOPS

RTX 5880 Ada Generation +2462%

69.27 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

VS

RTX 5880 Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Jan 2024

Northern Islands

Generation

Quadro Ada

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

975 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2460 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

48GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

864.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

110

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

14080

96

TMUs

440

32

ROPs

176

-

Tensor Cores

440

-

RT Cores

110

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

72 MB

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

433.0 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1082 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

69.27 TFLOPS

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

69.27 TFLOPS

675.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1082 GFLOPS

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

Board Design

250W

TDP

285W

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 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

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740

2

AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 AD106

3

AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs ATI FirePro V5800

4

AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

5

AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs ATI FireGL V5600

6

AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 730

7

AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs ATI Radeon HD 4670

8

AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs AMD Radeon HD 6990

9

AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA A2

10

AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs AMD Radeon HD 6850

Related News

1

Apple's 2025 OS in Development: iOS 19 Codename 'Luck'

2

Apple's AI is Memory Hungry! The Entire iPhone 16 Lineup Comes with 8GB RAM

3

Noctua Announce NH-D15 G2 Air Cooler and NF-A14x25r G2 Fan

4

The P-Cores and E-Cores in Arrow Lake Will Be Interleaved, Reducing Core Communication Latency and Improving Heat Dissipation

5

Changes in Intel Arrow Lake P/E Core Layout: Two Major Benefits

6

Time to Step Up, AMD and Intel! Nvidia Faces Antitrust Lawsuits in France, US, and EU

7

Intel Arrow Lake-S Features Dual Direct M.2 Slots: One PCIe 5.0 x4 and One PCIe 4.0 x4

8

AMD Ryzen 9000X3D Series to Feature Fully Unlocked Overclocking; DDR5-6400: The 'Sweet Spot' for Zen 5 Memory Speeds

9

Intel Z890 Motherboard Specs Leaked: Farewell to DDR4 Memory

10

AMD Ryzen 9000 Series Now Available for Pre-order in Europe: 9950X Priced at €660, Shipping by August 2