AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA NVS 315

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

NVIDIA NVS 315

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and 1024MB VRAM NVS 315 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

Boost Clock1050MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 14.00GB/s)

2000 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA NVS 315 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Lower TDP (19W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition +4201%

4.301 TFLOPS

NVS 315

0.1 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

VS

NVS 315

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Mar 2013

Southern Islands

Generation

NVS

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

875 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

14.00GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

1

2048

Shading Units

48

128

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.046 GPixel/s

134.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.184 GTexel/s

-

4.301 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

100.4 GFLOPS

1075 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

8.368 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

19W

700 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DMS-59

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GF119

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

GF119-825-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

79 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

2.1

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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