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

T600

CORE STATE TU117

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1335 MHz

TDP 40 W

BUS WIDTH 128 bit

ARCHITECTURE Turing

nm

PROCESS 12 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2021

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

34,541

27,875

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

25,878

passmark_directx_10

N/A

32

passmark_directx_11

N/A

49

passmark_directx_12

N/A

25

passmark_directx_9

N/A

114

passmark_g2d

N/A

756

passmark_g3d

N/A

6,479

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

2,402

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

HD 7970

T600

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

—

10

Clocks

Base Clock

—

735 MHz

Boost Clock

—

1335 MHz

GPU Clock

925 MHz

—

Memory Clock

1375 MHz 5.5 Gbps effective

1250 MHz 10 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

3 GB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

3,072

4,096 +33.3%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

384 bit

128 bit

Bandwidth

264.0 GB/s

160.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

768 KB

1024 KB

Performance

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

42.72 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

53.40 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

3.789 TFLOPS

1.709 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

947.2 GFLOPS (1:4)

53.40 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

3.418 TFLOPS (2:1)

Power

TDP

250 W

40 W

TDP (W)

250

40 -84.0%

Suggested PSU

600 W

200 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

None

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Turing

GPU Name

Tahiti

TU117

Generation

Southern Islands (HD 7900)

Quadro Turing (Tx000)

Process Size

28 nm

12 nm

Transistors

4,313 million

4,700 million

Die Size

352 mm²

200 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

12.3M / mm²

23.5M / 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

—

7.5

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Single-slot

Length

275 mm 10.8 inches

—

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

—

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

549 USD

—

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Northern Islands

Quadro Volta

Successor

Sea Islands

Workstation Ampere

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