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 970

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1178 MHz

TDP 148 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

34,541

28,528

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

369

geekbench_metal

N/A

13,595

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

31,001

passmark_directx_10

N/A

46

passmark_directx_11

N/A

71

passmark_directx_12

N/A

41

passmark_directx_9

N/A

143

passmark_g2d

N/A

764

passmark_g3d

N/A

9,638

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

4,073

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

HD 7970

GTX 970

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,048

1,664 -18.8%

Shaders

2,048

1,664 -18.8%

TMUs

128

104 -18.8%

ROPs

32

56 +75.0%

Compute Units

32

—

Clocks

Base Clock

—

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

—

1178 MHz

GPU Clock

925 MHz

—

Memory Clock

1375 MHz 5.5 Gbps effective

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

3 GB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

3,072

4,096 +33.3%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

384 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

264.0 GB/s

224.4 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

768 KB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

65.97 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

3.789 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

947.2 GFLOPS (1:4)

122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

Power

TDP

250 W

148 W

TDP (W)

250

148 -40.8%

Suggested PSU

600 W

300 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

2x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

Tahiti

GM204

Generation

Southern Islands (HD 7900)

GeForce 900

Process Size

28 nm

28 nm

Transistors

4,313 million

5,200 million

Die Size

352 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

12.3M / mm²

13.1M / 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

—

5.2

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

275 mm 10.8 inches

267 mm 10.5 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 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

549 USD

329 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Northern Islands

GeForce 700

Successor

Sea Islands

GeForce 10

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