AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285

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AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 X2 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 285 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 159.0GB/s)

1296 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 's Advantages

Lower TDP (204W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970 X2 +281%

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 285

0.708 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970 X2

VS

GeForce GTX 285

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Dec 2008

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1242 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

159.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

240

96

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.74 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.84 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

708.5 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

88.56 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Antilles

GPU Name

GT200B

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

GPU Variant

G200-350-B3

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

470 mm²

Board Design

375W

TDP

204W

750 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.3

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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