NVIDIA TITAN X Pascal vs AMD Radeon HD 6970
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM TITAN X Pascal 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 X Pascal 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock1531MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (480.4GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)
2048 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
TITAN X Pascal
+305%
10.97 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 6970
2.703 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2016
Release Date
Dec 2010
GeForce 10
Generation
Northern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1417 MHz
Base Clock
-
1531 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1251 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5X
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
480.4GB/s
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
24
28
SM Count
-
3584
Shading Units
1536
224
TMUs
96
96
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
3 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
147.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
28.16 GPixel/s
342.9 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
84.48 GTexel/s
171.5 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
10.97 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.703 TFLOPS
342.9 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
675.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
250W
600 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GP102
GPU Name
Cayman
GP102-400-A1
GPU Variant
Cayman XT
(215-0807007)
Pascal
Architecture
TeraScale 3
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
16 nm
Process Size
40 nm
11.8 billion
Transistors
2.64 billion
471 mm²
Die Size
389 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
6.1
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
5.0
