AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Dec 2010
May 2020
Generation
Northern Islands
Tesla Ampere
Type
Desktop
AI GPU
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1215 MHz
Base Clock
-
1095 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1410 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
40GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM2e
Memory Bus
256bit
5120bit
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
1555GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
24
-
Shading Units
1536
6912
TMUs
96
432
ROPs
32
160
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
192 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
40 MB
SM Count
-
108
Tensor Cores
-
432
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
28.16 GPixel/s
225.6 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
84.48 GTexel/s
609.1 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.703 TFLOPS
19.49 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
675.8 GFLOPS
9.746 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
77.97 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Cayman
GA100
GPU Variant
Cayman XT(215-0807007)
-
Architecture
TeraScale 3
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
7 nm
Transistors
2.64 billion
54.2 billion
Die Size
389 mm²
826 mm²
Board Design
TDP
250W
400W
Suggested PSU
600 W
800 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
N/A
OpenGL
4.4
N/A
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Shader Model
5.0
N/A
CUDA
-
8.0
📊 Benchmark
Blender
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2,186