GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs Radeon HD 6970
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1050 Ti |
| 175 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 6970 . |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Supports PhysX |
| Supports G-Sync |
| Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6970 |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 1050 Ti | | Radeon HD 6970 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GP107 (GP107-400-A1) | vs | Cayman (Cayman XT) |
| Fab Process | 14 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 132 mm² | vs | 389 mm² |
| Transistors | 3,300 million | vs | 2,640 million |
| Shaders | 768 | vs | 1536 |
| Compute Units | 6 | vs | 24 |
| Core clock | 1290 MHz | vs | 880 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 48 | vs | 96 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 1050 Ti | | Radeon HD 6970 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1752 MHz
7008 MHz effective | vs | 1375 MHz
5500 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 4096 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 1050 Ti | | Radeon HD 6970 | |
|---|
| TDP | 75 watts | vs | 250 watts |
| Release Date | 25 Oct 2016 | vs | 14 Dec 2010 |
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
41.30 GP/s
Radeon HD 6970
28.20 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
61.90 GT/s
Radeon HD 6970
84.50 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
112.10 GB/s
Radeon HD 6970
176.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
1981.40 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 6970
2703.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better