Radeon HD 6950 and GeForce GTX 570 Rev. 2 - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6950
GeForce GTX 570 Rev. 2
Architecture
TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Cayman
GF110
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2010
December 2010
Bus support
PCIe 2.0 x16
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
2x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
800 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
732 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,252.8 gflops
1,405 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2,640 million
3,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1408
480
Power consumption (TDP)
500 Watt
219 Watt
Texture fill rate
70.40
43.92
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1280 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
320 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
3800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
152.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
2.0
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
-
N/A
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-