NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 670 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 's Advantages

Boost Clock980MHz

Lower TDP (170W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 670

2.634 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM +43%

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 670

VS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

Graphics Card

May 2012

Release Date

Jan 2013

GeForce 600

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

915 MHz

Base Clock

-

980 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

-

1344

Shading Units

2048

112

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

109.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

-

2.634 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

109.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

Tahiti

GK104-325-A2

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

Kepler

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

Vulkan

1.2

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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