Radeon HD 6970 and GeForce GT 1030 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6970 vs GeForce GT 1030
Radeon HD 6970
2921
GeForce GT 1030
2539
Radeon HD 6970
GeForce GT 1030
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
Cayman
N17P-G1
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2010
May 2017
Bus support
PCIe 2.0 x16
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x4
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Boost clock speed
880 MHz
1670 MHz
Core clock speed
-
1228 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,703.4 gflops
1,127 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
2,640 million
1,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
384
Power consumption (TDP)
550 Watt
30 Watt
Texture fill rate
84.48
35.23
Memory type
DDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1375 MHz
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
48.06 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
G-SYNC support
-
+
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
6.1
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.4
Vulkan
-
1.2.131
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
VR Ready
-
+
ZeroCore
-
-