GeForce GT 1010 DDR4 vs Radeon HD 7970
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1010 DDR4 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GT 1010 DDR4 's Advantages
Released 9 years late
Boost Clock1380MHz
Lower TDP (20W vs 250W)
Radeon HD 7970 's Advantages
More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)
1792 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 1010 DDR4
706
Radeon HD 7970
+436%
3789
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GT 1010 DDR4
543
Radeon HD 7970
+325%
2310
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GT 1010 DDR4
153
Radeon HD 7970
+690%
1209
Graphics Card
Jan 2021
Release Date
Jan 2012
GeForce 10
Generation
Southern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1152 MHz
Base Clock
-
1380 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1050 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
3GB
DDR4
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
384bit
16.80GB/s
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
32
2
SM Count
-
256
Shading Units
2048
16
TMUs
128
8
ROPs
32
16 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
11.04 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
22.08 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
706.6 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
29.44 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
947.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
250W
200 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 2.0
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GP108
GPU Name
Tahiti
GP108-200-A1
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT
(215-0821060)
Pascal
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.8 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
74 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
1.3
Vulkan
1.2.170
6.1
CUDA
-
6.7
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)