AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition 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

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

2016 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition +4678%

4.301 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition

0.09 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

VS

GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Jan 2009

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 100

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

32

128

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

134.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.800 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.301 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

89.60 GFLOPS

1075 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

G96C

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

121 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

50W

700 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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