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 4070

CORE STATE AD104

VRAM 12 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2475 MHz

TDP 200 W

BUS WIDTH 192 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ada Lovelace

nm

PROCESS 5 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2023

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

6,210

168,006

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

3,854

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

157,352

passmark_directx_10

N/A

139

passmark_directx_11

N/A

244

passmark_directx_12

N/A

103

passmark_directx_9

N/A

320

passmark_g2d

N/A

1,164

passmark_g3d

N/A

26,927

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

14,720

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

HD 6950

RTX 4070

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,408

5,888 +318.2%

Shaders

1,408

5,888 +318.2%

TMUs

88

184 +109.1%

ROPs

32

64 +100.0%

Compute Units

22

—

SM Count

—

46

Clocks

Base Clock

—

1920 MHz

Boost Clock

—

2475 MHz

GPU Clock

800 MHz

—

Memory Clock

1250 MHz 5 Gbps effective

1313 MHz 21 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

2 GB

12 GB

VRAM (MB)

2,048

12,288 +500.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6X

Memory Bus

256 bit

192 bit

Bandwidth

160.0 GB/s

504.2 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

512 KB

36 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

158.4 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

70.40 GTexel/s

455.4 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.253 TFLOPS

29.15 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

563.2 GFLOPS (1:4)

455.4 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

29.15 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

46

Tensor Cores

—

184

Power

TDP

200 W

200 W

TDP (W)

200

200 0.0%

Suggested PSU

550 W

550 W

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 16-pin

Architecture

Architecture

TeraScale 3

Ada Lovelace

GPU Name

Cayman

AD104

Generation

Northern Islands (HD 6900)

GeForce 40

Process Size

40 nm

5 nm

Transistors

2,640 million

35,800 million

Die Size

389 mm²

294 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

6.8M / mm²

121.8M / 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

—

8.9

Shader Model

5.0

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

286 mm 11.3 inches

240 mm 9.4 inches

Height

126 mm 5 inches

110 mm 4.3 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 30

Successor

Southern Islands

GeForce 50

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