NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Mar 2025
Jan 2013
Generation
Blackwell PRO W
Sea Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1590 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2617 MHz
-
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
96GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR7
GDDR5
Memory Bus
512bit
384bit
Bandwidth
1.79TB/s
264.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
188
-
Shading Units
24064
2048
TMUs
752
128
ROPs
192
32
Tensor Cores
752
-
RT Cores
188
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
128 MB
768 KB
Compute Units
-
32
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
502.5 GPixel/s
29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
1968.0 GTexel/s
118.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
126.0 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
126.0 TFLOPS
3.789 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1.968 TFLOPS
947.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GB202
Tahiti
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
5 nm
28 nm
Transistors
92.2 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
750 mm²
352 mm²
GPU Variant
-
Tahiti XT(215-0821060)
Board Design
TDP
600W
250W
Suggested PSU
1000 W
600 W
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 2.1b
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.4
1.2
CUDA
12.0
-
Shader Model
6.9
5.1
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
42,269
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
27,891
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3DMark Speed Way
15,642
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