AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA RTX A4500 Max-Q
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Dec 2010
Mar 2022
Generation
Northern Islands
Quadro Ampere-M
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1750 MHz
Base Clock
-
510 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1215 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
16GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
448.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
24
-
Shading Units
1536
5888
TMUs
96
184
ROPs
32
96
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
4 MB
SM Count
-
46
Tensor Cores
-
184
RT Cores
-
46
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
28.16 GPixel/s
116.6 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
84.48 GTexel/s
223.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.703 TFLOPS
14.31 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
675.8 GFLOPS
223.6 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
14.31 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Cayman
GA104
GPU Variant
Cayman XT(215-0807007)
-
Architecture
TeraScale 3
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
40 nm
8 nm
Transistors
2.64 billion
17.4 billion
Die Size
389 mm²
392 mm²
Board Design
TDP
250W
80W
Suggested PSU
600 W
-
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Portable Device Dependent
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.3
Shader Model
5.0
6.7
CUDA
-
8.6