AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 Rev. 2

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 570 Rev. 2 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 1 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1280GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 152.0GB/s)

1568 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (219W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition +206%

4.301 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 570 Rev. 2

1.405 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

VS

GeForce GTX 570 Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Dec 2010

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 500

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

950 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1280MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

320bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

152.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

15

2048

Shading Units

480

128

TMUs

60

32

ROPs

40

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

640 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.96 GPixel/s

134.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

43.92 GTexel/s

-

4.301 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1405 GFLOPS

1075 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

175.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

219W

700 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GF110

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

GF110-275-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

3 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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