AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA RTX A2000 Mobile
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Dec 2010
Apr 2021
Generation
Northern Islands
Ampere-MW
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1500 MHz
Base Clock
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1215 MHz
Boost Clock
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1687 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
128bit
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
192.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
24
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Shading Units
1536
2560
TMUs
96
80
ROPs
32
48
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
2 MB
SM Count
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20
Tensor Cores
—
80
RT Cores
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20
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
28.16 GPixel/s
80.98 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
84.48 GTexel/s
135.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.703 TFLOPS
8.637 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
675.8 GFLOPS
135.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
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8.637 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Cayman
GA107
GPU Variant
Cayman XT(215-0807007)
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Architecture
TeraScale 3
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
40 nm
8 nm
Transistors
2.64 billion
8.7 billion
Die Size
389 mm²
200 mm²
Board Design
TDP
250W
95W
Suggested PSU
600 W
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Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Portable Device Dependent
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.3
Shader Model
5.0
6.8
CUDA
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8.6
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.