AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Dec 2010
Dec 2018
Generation
Northern Islands
GeForce 10
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
1001 MHz
Base Clock
—
1506 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1683 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5X
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s
256.3GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
22
—
Shading Units
1408
1920
TMUs
88
120
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
2 MB
SM Count
—
15
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
25.60 GPixel/s
107.7 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
70.40 GTexel/s
202.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.253 TFLOPS
6.463 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
563.2 GFLOPS
202.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
101.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Cayman
GP104
GPU Variant
Cayman PRO(215-0807019)
GP104-200-A1
Architecture
TeraScale 3
Pascal
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
16 nm
Transistors
2.64 billion
7.2 billion
Die Size
389 mm²
314 mm²
Board Design
TDP
200W
150W
Suggested PSU
550 W
450 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.3
Shader Model
5.0
6.4
CUDA
—
6.1
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
—
6,078
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.