Jetson Nano GPU vs Radeon HD 6970 X2

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale 3 (2010−2013)Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameAntillesGM20B
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release dateno data (2024 years ago)March 2019 (5 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1536128
Core clock speed880 MHz640 MHz
Boost clock speedno data921 MHz
Number of transistors2,640 million2,000 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm20 nm
Power consumption (TDP)375 Watt10 Watt
Texture fill rate84.4814.74
Floating-point processing powerno data0.2358 TFLOPS
ROPs3216
TMUs9616

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16IGP
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors3x 8-pinno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount2 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed5.5 GB/sSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth176.0 GB/sno data
Shared memory-+

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI 1.4a, 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2No outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.06.4
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.21.2
VulkanN/A1.1
CUDA-5.3

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 40 nm 20 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 375 Watt 10 Watt

Jetson Nano GPU has a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 3650% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6970 X2 and Jetson Nano GPU. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 6970 X2 is a desktop card while Jetson Nano GPU is a notebook one.


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