AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 340 OEM

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GT 340 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 340 OEM 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 2 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 27.20GB/s)

1952 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 340 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (69W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition +1573%

4.301 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 340 OEM

0.257 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

VS

GeForce GT 340 OEM

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Feb 2010

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 300

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

850 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

27.20GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

2048

Shading Units

96

128

TMUs

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

134.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.60 GTexel/s

-

4.301 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

257.3 GFLOPS

1075 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

300W

TDP

69W

700 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GT215

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

GT215-301-A3

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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