Radeon HD 6970 and GeForce RTX 4070 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6970 vs GeForce RTX 4070
Radeon HD 6970
2921
GeForce RTX 4070
27789
Radeon HD 6970
GeForce RTX 4070
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Ada Lovelace
GPU code name
Cayman
AD104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2010
April 2023
Bus support
PCIe 2.0 x16
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 16-pin
Boost clock speed
880 MHz
2475 MHz
Core clock speed
-
1920 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,703.4 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
5 nm
Number of transistors
2,640 million
35,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
5888
Power consumption (TDP)
550 Watt
200 Watt
Texture fill rate
84.48
455.4
Memory type
DDR5
GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
12 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
1375 MHz
21000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
504.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.9
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.7
Vulkan
-
1.3
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-