AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA NVS 510

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

NVIDIA NVS 510

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and 2GB VRAM NVS 510 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 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 28.51GB/s)

1856 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA NVS 510 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition +1305%

4.301 TFLOPS

NVS 510

0.306 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

VS

NVS 510

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Oct 2012

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

891 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

28.51GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

192

128

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.188 GPixel/s

134.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.75 GTexel/s

-

4.301 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

306.0 GFLOPS

1075 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

12.75 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

35W

700 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GK107

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

GK107-301-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

1.27 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

118 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

-

CUDA

3.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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