NVIDIA TITAN RTX vs AMD Radeon HD 6970

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM TITAN RTX and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA TITAN RTX 's Advantages

Released 8 years late

Boost Clock1770MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (672.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages

Lower TDP (250W vs 280W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

TITAN RTX +503%

16.31 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

2.703 TFLOPS

TITAN RTX

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Radeon HD 6970

Graphics Card

Dec 2018

Release Date

Dec 2010

GeForce 20

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1350 MHz

Base Clock

-

1770 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

672.0GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

72

SM Count

-

Compute Units

24

4608

Shading Units

1536

288

TMUs

96

ROPs

32

576

Tensor Cores

-

72

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

6 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

169.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.16 GPixel/s

509.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

32.62 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

16.31 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

509.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

675.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU102

GPU Name

Cayman

TU102-400-A1

GPU Variant

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

Turing

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

40 nm

18.6 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

754 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Board Design

280W

TDP

250W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.0

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