AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

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AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 X2 and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5080 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 's Advantages

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

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 's Advantages

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

9216 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (350W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970 X2

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5080 +1904%

54.19 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970 X2

VS

GeForce RTX 5080

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Jan 2025

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2235 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR7

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

84

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

10752

96

TMUs

336

32

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

336

-

RT Cores

84

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 MB

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

322.6 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

846.7 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

54.19 TFLOPS

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

54.19 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

846.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Antilles

GPU Name

GB203

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

GPU Variant

GB203

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

0 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

Unknown

389 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

375W

TDP

350W

750 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

3x 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

9.1

5.0

Shader Model

6.7

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