AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA T1000

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6970

NVIDIA T1000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 and 4GB VRAM T1000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA T1000 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1395MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970 +8%

2.703 TFLOPS

T1000

2.5 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

VS

T1000

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

May 2021

Northern Islands

Generation

Quadro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1065 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1395 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

-

SM Count

14

1536

Shading Units

896

96

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

44.64 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

78.12 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.000 TFLOPS

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.500 TFLOPS

675.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

78.12 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

50W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

TU117

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

12 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

4.7 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

7.5

5.0

Shader Model

6.6

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