Radeon HD 6970 vs GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
Summary
Radeon HD 6970
103%
GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
100%
Relative performance
Radeon HD 6970
100%
GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
116%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6970 |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost |
| 16% higher gaming performance. |
| 116 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. |
| Supports PhysX |
| Supports G-Sync |
| Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
The GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (4 combinations of games and resolutions).
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 6970 | | GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Cayman (Cayman XT) | vs | GK106 (GK106-240-A1) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 389 mm² | vs | 221 mm² |
| Transistors | 2,640 million | vs | 2,540 million |
| Shaders | 1536 | vs | 768 |
| Compute Units | 24 | vs | 4 |
| Core clock | 880 MHz | vs | 980 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 24 |
| TMUs | 96 | vs | 64 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 6970 | | GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 192 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1375 MHz
5500 MHz effective | vs | 1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 6970 | | GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost | |
|---|
| TDP | 250 watts | vs | 134 watts |
| Release Date | 14 Dec 2010 | vs | 26 Mar 2013 |
Radeon HD 6970
28.20 GP/s
GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
15.70 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 6970
84.50 GT/s
GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
62.70 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 6970
176.00 GB/s
GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
144.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 6970
2703.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
1505.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
Radeon HD 6970
6000
GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
5800
Points (higher is better)
DX11, Ultra, DDOD, FXAA
Radeon HD 6970
24
GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
27
FPS (higher is better)
DX11, Ultra Quality,DDOD, FX AA
Radeon HD 6970
38
GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
45
FPS (higher is better)
DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA
Radeon HD 6970
31
GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
37
FPS (higher is better)
DX11, AAA standard, 16xAF, Motion Blur normal, Tesselation normal
Radeon HD 6970
24
GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
28
FPS (higher is better)