NVIDIA NVS 300 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

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NVIDIA NVS 300 AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM NVS 300 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA NVS 300 's Advantages

Lower TDP (18W vs 300W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 12.64GB/s)

2032 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

NVS 300

0.039 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition +10928%

4.301 TFLOPS

NVS 300

VS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jun 2012

NVS

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

790 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

3GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

384bit

12.64GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

16

Shading Units

2048

8

TMUs

128

4

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

2.080 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.60 GPixel/s

4.160 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

134.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

39.36 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.301 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

1075 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT218

GPU Name

Tahiti

GT218-670-B1

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.26 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

57 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

18W

TDP

300W

200 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x DMS-59

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

5.1

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