AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and 256MB VRAM Quadro FX 3450 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 6 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450 's Advantages

Lower TDP (83W vs 300W)

Score

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

VS

Quadro FX 3450

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Jul 2005

Southern Islands

Generation

Quadro FX Curie

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

-

128

TMUs

12

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.400 GPixel/s

134.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.100 GTexel/s

-

4.301 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

1075 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

300W

TDP

83W

700 W

Suggested PSU

250 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

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

NV41

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

NV41 GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

130 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.19 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

225 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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