GPU Comparison

A

AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon HD 6950

CORE STATE Cayman

VRAM 2 GB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 200 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE TeraScale 3

nm

PROCESS 40 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2010

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

CORE STATE GA104

VRAM 8 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1770 MHz

TDP 290 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ampere

nm

PROCESS 8 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2021

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

6,210

137,518

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

3,478

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

130,778

passmark_directx_10

N/A

155

passmark_directx_11

N/A

192

passmark_directx_12

N/A

91

passmark_directx_9

N/A

261

passmark_g2d

N/A

1,055

passmark_g3d

N/A

23,356

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

11,601

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

HD 6950

RTX 3070 Ti

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,408

6,144 +336.4%

Shaders

1,408

6,144 +336.4%

TMUs

88

192 +118.2%

ROPs

32

96 +200.0%

Compute Units

22

—

SM Count

—

48

Clocks

Base Clock

—

1575 MHz

Boost Clock

—

1770 MHz

GPU Clock

800 MHz

—

Memory Clock

1250 MHz 5 Gbps effective

1188 MHz 19 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

2 GB

8 GB

VRAM (MB)

2,048

8,192 +300.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6X

Memory Bus

256 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

160.0 GB/s

608.3 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

512 KB

4 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

169.9 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

70.40 GTexel/s

339.8 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.253 TFLOPS

21.75 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

563.2 GFLOPS (1:4)

339.8 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

21.75 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

48

Tensor Cores

—

192

Power

TDP

200 W

290 W

TDP (W)

200

290 +45.0%

Suggested PSU

550 W

600 W

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 12-pin

Architecture

Architecture

TeraScale 3

Ampere

GPU Name

Cayman

GA104

Generation

Northern Islands (HD 6900)

GeForce 30

Process Size

40 nm

8 nm

Transistors

2,640 million

17,400 million

Die Size

389 mm²

392 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

Samsung

Density

6.8M / mm²

44.4M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenGL

4.4

4.6

Vulkan

—

1.4

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

CUDA

—

8.6

Shader Model

5.0

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

286 mm 11.3 inches

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

126 mm 5 inches

112 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

299 USD

599 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Evergreen

GeForce 20

Successor

Southern Islands

GeForce 40

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