NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1076MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (250W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +59%

6.06 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

VS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

Aug 2012

GeForce 900

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1076 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

336.6GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

-

2816

Shading Units

2048

176

TMUs

128

96

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

103.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

189.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

-

6.060 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

189.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

500W

600 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM200

GPU Name

New Zealand

GM200-310-A1

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

8 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

601 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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