GPU Comparison

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 590

CORE STATE GF110
VRAM 1536 MB
CLOCK SPEED
TDP 365 W
BUS WIDTH 384 bit
ARCHITECTURE Fermi 2.0
nm
PROCESS 40 nm
LAUNCH DATE 2011

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl
34,541
12,830

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION
HD 7970
GTX 590
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,048
512 -75.0%
Shaders
2,048
512 -75.0%
TMUs
128
64 -50.0%
ROPs
32
48 +50.0%
Compute Units
32
SM Count
16
Clocks
GPU Clock
925 MHz
608 MHz
Shader Clock
1215 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz 5.5 Gbps effective
854 MHz 3.4 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
3 GB
1536 MB
VRAM (MB)
3,072
1,536 -50.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384 bit
384 bit
Bandwidth
264.0 GB/s
164.0 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
768 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
19.46 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
38.91 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
3.789 TFLOPS
1,244.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
947.2 GFLOPS (1:4)
155.5 GFLOPS (1:8)
Power
TDP
250 W
365 W
TDP (W)
250
365 +46.0%
Suggested PSU
600 W
750 W
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
2x 8-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Fermi 2.0
GPU Name
Tahiti
GF110
Generation
Southern Islands (HD 7900)
GeForce 500
Process Size
28 nm
40 nm
Transistors
4,313 million
3,000 million
Die Size
352 mm²
520 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
12.3M / mm²
5.8M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.2.170
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
1.1
CUDA
2.0
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
5.1
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Dual-slot
Length
275 mm 10.8 inches
279 mm 11 inches
Height
111 mm 4.4 inches
111 mm 4.4 inches
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
3x DVI1x mini-DisplayPort
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
549 USD
699 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Northern Islands
GeForce 400
Successor
Sea Islands
GeForce 600
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