AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 GK107

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 GK107

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 GK107 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Boost Clock1050MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 80.00GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 GK107 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 3 months late

Lower TDP (65W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition +429%

4.301 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1030 GK107

0.812 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

VS

GeForce GT 1030 GK107

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Sep 2018

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

80.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

384

128

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.464 GPixel/s

134.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.86 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.301 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

812.5 GFLOPS

1075 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

33.86 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GK107

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

1.27 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

65W

700 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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