NVIDIA NVS 510 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970

VS

NVIDIA NVS 510

AMD Radeon HD 7970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM NVS 510 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA NVS 510 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Lower TDP (35W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 28.51GB/s)

1856 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

NVS 510

0.306 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 +1138%

3.789 TFLOPS

NVS 510

VS

Radeon HD 7970

Graphics Card

Oct 2012

Release Date

Dec 2011

NVS

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

891 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

28.51GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

-

192

Shading Units

2048

16

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.188 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

12.75 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

-

306.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

12.75 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

250W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GK107

GPU Name

Tahiti

GK107-301-A2

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

Kepler

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.27 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

118 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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