NVIDIA RTX A4000 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon HD 6970
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Apr 2021
Dec 2010
Generation
Ampere-MW
Northern Islands
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
780 MHz
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Boost Clock
1395 MHz
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Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
352.0GB/s
176.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
40
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Shading Units
5120
1536
TMUs
160
96
ROPs
80
32
Tensor Cores
160
—
RT Cores
40
—
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
4 MB
512 KB
Compute Units
—
24
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
111.6 GPixel/s
28.16 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
223.2 GTexel/s
84.48 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
14.28 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
14.28 TFLOPS
2.703 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
223.2 GFLOPS
675.8 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA104
Cayman
Architecture
Ampere
TeraScale 3
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
40 nm
Transistors
17.4 billion
2.64 billion
Die Size
392 mm²
389 mm²
GPU Variant
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Cayman XT(215-0807007)
Board Design
TDP
80W
250W
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Suggested PSU
—
600 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
N/A
CUDA
8.6
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Shader Model
6.8
5.0
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.