AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and 1792MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 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 6 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 112.9GB/s)

1856 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition +936%

4.301 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 OEM

0.415 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

VS

GeForce GTX 260 OEM

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Dec 2009

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

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

1008 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1792MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

448bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

24

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

192

128

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

28

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.50 GPixel/s

134.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.15 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.301 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

414.7 GFLOPS

1075 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

51.84 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GT200B

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

G200-103-B2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

470 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

182W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

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

1.3

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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