NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce GTX TITAN X 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 TITAN X 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1089MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)

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

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX TITAN X +76%

6.691 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX TITAN X

VS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Jan 2013

GeForce 900

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1089 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

336.6GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

-

3072

Shading Units

2048

192

TMUs

128

96

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

104.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

209.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

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6.691 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

209.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

250W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM200

GPU Name

Tahiti

GM200-400-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

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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