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
Tesla K80
CORE STATE
GK210
VRAM
12 GB
CLOCK SPEED
824 MHz
TDP
300 W
BUS WIDTH
384 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Kepler 2.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2014
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
HD 7970
Tesla K80
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,048
2,496
+21.9%
Shaders
2,048
2,496
+21.9%
TMUs
128
208
+62.5%
ROPs
32
48
+50.0%
Compute Units
32
—
Clocks
Base Clock
—
562 MHz
Boost Clock
—
824 MHz
GPU Clock
925 MHz
—
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
5.5 Gbps effective
1253 MHz
5 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
3 GB
12 GB
VRAM (MB)
3,072
12,288
+300.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384 bit
384 bit
Bandwidth
264.0 GB/s
240.6 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per SMX)
L2 Cache
768 KB
1536 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
42.85 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
171.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
3.789 TFLOPS
4.113 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
947.2 GFLOPS (1:4)
1,371.1 GFLOPS (1:3)
Power
TDP
250 W
300 W
TDP (W)
250
300
+20.0%
Suggested PSU
600 W
700 W
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 8-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Kepler 2.0
GPU Name
Tahiti
GK210
Generation
Southern Islands
(HD 7900)
Tesla Kepler
(Kxx)
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
4,313 million
7,100 million
Die Size
352 mm²
561 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
12.3M / mm²
12.7M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.2.175
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
3.0
CUDA
—
3.7
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
6.5 (5.1)
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Dual-slot
Length
275 mm
10.8 inches
267 mm
10.5 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 3.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
549 USD
—
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Northern Islands
Tesla Fermi
Successor
Sea Islands
Tesla Maxwell