Radeon HD 6970 and GeForce 210 OEM - video card comparison

Radeon HD 6970

GeForce 210 OEM

Architecture

Terascale 2 (2009−2015)

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

GPU code name

Cayman

GT216

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

December 2010

September 2009

Bus support

PCIe 2.0 x16

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

None

Boost clock speed

880 MHz

-

Core clock speed

-

475 MHz

Floating-point performance

2,703.4 gflops

35.2 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

2,640 million

486 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1536

16

Power consumption (TDP)

550 Watt

31 Watt

Texture fill rate

84.48

3.800

Memory type

DDR5

DDR2

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

1 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

1375 MHz

800 MHz

Memory bandwidth

-

6.4 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort

1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x VGA

Eyefinity

1

-

HDMI

+

-

DisplayPort support

-

-

DirectX

DirectX® 11

11.1 (10_1)

CUDA

-

1.2

Mantle

-

-

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

OpenGL

4.4

3.3

Shader Model

5.0

4.1

Vulkan

-

N/A

AppAcceleration

-

-

CrossFire

1

-

Enduro

-

-

HD3D

-

-

PowerTune

-

-

TrueAudio

-

-

ZeroCore

-

-