GPU Comparison
RADEON
AMD Radeon HD 7970
CORE STATE
Tahiti
VRAM
3 GB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
250 W
BUS WIDTH
384 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 1.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2012
VS
GEFORCE
P106-100
CORE STATE
GP106
VRAM
6 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1709 MHz
TDP
120 W
BUS WIDTH
192 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Pascal
PROCESS
16 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2017
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
HD 7970
P106-100
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,048
1,280
-37.5%
Shaders
2,048
1,280
-37.5%
TMUs
128
80
-37.5%
ROPs
32
48
+50.0%
Compute Units
32
—
SM Count
—
10
Clocks
Base Clock
—
1506 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1709 MHz
GPU Clock
925 MHz
—
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
5.5 Gbps effective
2002 MHz
8 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
3 GB
6 GB
VRAM (MB)
3,072
6,144
+100.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384 bit
192 bit
Bandwidth
264.0 GB/s
192.2 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
1536 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
82.03 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
136.7 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
3.789 TFLOPS
4.375 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
947.2 GFLOPS (1:4)
136.7 GFLOPS (1:32)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
68.36 GFLOPS (1:64)
Power
TDP
250 W
120 W
TDP (W)
250
120
-52.0%
Suggested PSU
600 W
300 W
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Pascal
GPU Name
Tahiti
GP106
Generation
Southern Islands
(HD 7900)
Mining GPUs
Process Size
28 nm
16 nm
Transistors
4,313 million
4,400 million
Die Size
352 mm²
200 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
12.3M / mm²
22.0M / 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
250 mm
9.8 inches
Height
111 mm
4.4 inches
—
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
549 USD
—
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Northern Islands
—
Successor
Sea Islands
—