GPU Comparison

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AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon HD 7970

CORE STATE Tahiti

VRAM 3 GB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 250 W

BUS WIDTH 384 bit

ARCHITECTURE GCN 1.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2012

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce GTX 1050

CORE STATE GP107

VRAM 2 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1455 MHz

TDP 75 W

BUS WIDTH 128 bit

ARCHITECTURE Pascal

nm

PROCESS 14 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2016

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

34,541

17,471

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

122

geekbench_metal

N/A

7,823

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

15,782

passmark_directx_10

N/A

24

passmark_directx_11

N/A

38

passmark_directx_12

N/A

20

passmark_directx_9

N/A

83

passmark_g2d

N/A

457

passmark_g3d

N/A

5,028

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

2,091

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

HD 7970

GTX 1050

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,048

640 -68.8%

Shaders

2,048

640 -68.8%

TMUs

128

40 -68.8%

ROPs

32

32 0.0%

Compute Units

32

—

SM Count

—

5

Clocks

Base Clock

—

1354 MHz

Boost Clock

—

1455 MHz

GPU Clock

925 MHz

—

Memory Clock

1375 MHz 5.5 Gbps effective

1752 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

3 GB

2 GB

VRAM (MB)

3,072

2,048 -33.3%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

384 bit

128 bit

Bandwidth

264.0 GB/s

112.1 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

768 KB

1024 KB

Performance

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

46.56 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

58.20 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

3.789 TFLOPS

1.862 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

947.2 GFLOPS (1:4)

58.20 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

29.10 GFLOPS (1:64)

Power

TDP

250 W

75 W

TDP (W)

250

75 -70.0%

Suggested PSU

600 W

250 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

None

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Pascal

GPU Name

Tahiti

GP107

Generation

Southern Islands (HD 7900)

GeForce 10

Process Size

28 nm

14 nm

Transistors

4,313 million

3,300 million

Die Size

352 mm²

132 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

Samsung

Density

12.3M / mm²

25.0M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.4

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

3.0

CUDA

—

6.1

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

275 mm 10.8 inches

145 mm 5.7 inches

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.01x DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

549 USD

109 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Northern Islands

GeForce 900

Successor

Sea Islands

GeForce 20

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