Radeon HD 6970 and RTX A1000 Mobile - video card comparison

Radeon HD 6970

RTX A1000 Mobile

Architecture

Terascale 2 (2009−2015)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Cayman

GA107

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

December 2010

March 2022

Bus support

PCIe 2.0 x16

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

-

Boost clock speed

880 MHz

1140 MHz

Floating-point performance

2,703.4 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

2,640 million

-

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1536

2048

Power consumption (TDP)

550 Watt

95 Watt (35 - 95 Watt TGP)

Texture fill rate

84.48

72.96

Memory type

DDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

1375 MHz

14000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

-

176.0 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

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

Portable Device Dependent

Eyefinity

1

-

HDMI

+

-

DisplayPort support

-

-

DirectX

DirectX® 11

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

-

8.6

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

-

-