NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra vs AMD Radeon HD 7970

VS

NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra

AMD Radeon HD 7970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 64MB VRAM GeForce2 Ultra and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 64GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 7.360GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce2 Ultra

VS

Radeon HD 7970

Graphics Card

Aug 2000

Release Date

Dec 2011

GeForce 2

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

AGP 4x

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

230 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

64MB

Memory Size

3GB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

7.360GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

-

Shading Units

2048

8

TMUs

128

4

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

2.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

250W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x VGA

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

NV15

GPU Name

Tahiti

GeForce2 Ultra

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

Celsius

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

180 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.025 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

88 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

7.0

DirectX

12 (11_1)

1.5

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

Shader Model

5.1

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