AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 and 12GB VRAM RTX A5000 12Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1695MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

6656 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (230W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970

2.703 TFLOPS

RTX A5000 12Q +927%

27.77 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

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RTX A5000 12Q

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Apr 2021

Northern Islands

Generation

Quadro Ampere

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1170 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

768.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

64

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

8192

96

TMUs

256

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

256

-

RT Cores

64

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

162.7 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

433.9 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

27.77 TFLOPS

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

27.77 TFLOPS

675.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

433.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

GA102

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

230W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 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 8-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

8.6

5.0

Shader Model

6.7

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