
Radeon HD 6970 and GeForce GT 610 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6970 vs GeForce GT 610
Radeon HD 6970
2921
GeForce GT 610
317
Radeon HD 6970
GeForce GT 610
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Cayman
GF119
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2010
April 2012
Bus support
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCI Express 2.0
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
-
810 MHz
CUDA cores
-
48
Floating-point performance
2,703.4 gflops
155.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2,640 million
292 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
48
Power consumption (TDP)
550 Watt
29 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
102 °C
Texture fill rate
84.48
6.5 billion/sec
Memory type
DDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1024 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1375 MHz
1.8 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
-
14.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI, VGA
Multi monitor support
-
+
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
DisplayPort support
-
-
Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
+
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
4.2
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
-
N/A
3D Blu-Ray
-
+
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-