AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 X2

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 760 X2 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

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 X2 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1072MHz vs 1050MHz)

Lower TDP (250W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition +74%

4.301 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 760 X2

2.47 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

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GeForce GTX 760 X2

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Nov 2013

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1006 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

1072 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

1152

128

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.73 GPixel/s

134.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

102.9 GTexel/s

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4.301 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.470 TFLOPS

1075 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

102.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

250W

700 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GK104

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

GK104-225-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

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CUDA

3.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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