NVIDIA RTX A5500 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Mar 2022
Dec 2010
Generation
Quadro Ampere
Northern Islands
Type
Professional
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1080 MHz
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Boost Clock
1665 MHz
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Memory Clock
2000 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
24GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
256bit
Bandwidth
768.0GB/s
176.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
80
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Shading Units
10240
1536
TMUs
320
96
ROPs
96
32
Tensor Cores
320
—
RT Cores
80
—
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
6 MB
512 KB
Compute Units
—
24
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
159.8 GPixel/s
28.16 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
532.8 GTexel/s
84.48 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
34.10 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
34.10 TFLOPS
2.703 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
532.8 GFLOPS
675.8 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA102
Cayman
Architecture
Ampere
TeraScale 3
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
40 nm
Transistors
28.3 billion
2.64 billion
Die Size
628 mm²
389 mm²
GPU Variant
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Cayman XT(215-0807007)
Board Design
TDP
230W
250W
Suggested PSU
550 W
600 W
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
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
—
Shader Model
6.7
5.0
Benchmark
OctaneBench
596
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Blender
4,316
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▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.