GPU Comparison

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AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon HD 7790

CORE STATE Bonaire

VRAM 1024 MB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 85 W

BUS WIDTH 128 bit

ARCHITECTURE GCN 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2013

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce GTX 980

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1216 MHz

TDP 165 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_metal

17,666

15,163

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

474

geekbench_opencl

N/A

33,457

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

38,172

passmark_directx_10

N/A

53

passmark_directx_11

N/A

83

passmark_directx_12

N/A

46

passmark_directx_9

N/A

164

passmark_g2d

N/A

792

passmark_g3d

N/A

11,095

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

4,753

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

HD 7790

GTX 980

Core Specs

Shading Units

896

2,048 +128.6%

Shaders

896

2,048 +128.6%

TMUs

56

128 +128.6%

ROPs

16

64 +300.0%

Compute Units

14

—

Clocks

Base Clock

—

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

—

1216 MHz

GPU Clock

1000 MHz

—

Memory Clock

1500 MHz 6 Gbps effective

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

1024 MB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

1,024

4,096 +300.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

128 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

96.00 GB/s

224.4 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

256 KB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

16.00 GPixel/s

77.82 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

56.00 GTexel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

1.792 TFLOPS

4.981 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

112.0 GFLOPS (1:16)

155.6 GFLOPS (1:32)

Power

TDP

85 W

165 W

TDP (W)

85

165 +94.1%

Suggested PSU

250 W

450 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

2x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 2.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

Bonaire

GM204

Generation

Southern Islands (HD 7700)

GeForce 900

Process Size

28 nm

28 nm

Transistors

2,080 million

5,200 million

Die Size

160 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

13.0M / mm²

13.1M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.4

OpenCL

2.1

3.0

CUDA

—

5.2

Shader Model

6.5

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

183 mm 7.2 inches

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

—

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

149 USD

549 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Northern Islands

GeForce 700

Successor

Sea Islands

GeForce 10

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