
Radeon HD 6970 and GeForce GT 710 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6970 vs GeForce GT 710
Radeon HD 6970
2921
GeForce GT 710
649
Radeon HD 6970
GeForce GT 710
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name
Cayman
GK208B
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2010
March 2014
Bus support
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCI Express 2.0
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Boost clock speed
880 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
954 MHz
CUDA cores
-
192
Floating-point performance
2,703.4 gflops
366.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,640 million
915 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
192
Power consumption (TDP)
550 Watt
19 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
95 °C
Texture fill rate
84.48
15.26
Memory type
DDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1375 MHz
1.8 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
-
14.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Dual Link DVI-DHDMIVGA
Multi monitor support
-
3 displays
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
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.5
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
-
1.1.126
3D Vision
-
+
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PhysX
-
+
PowerTune
-
-
PureVideo
-
+
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-