AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 3450 PCI

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

ATI Radeon HD 3450 PCI

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3450 PCI 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 4 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

2008 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3450 PCI 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition +8860%

4.301 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3450 PCI

0.048 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

VS

Radeon HD 3450 PCI

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Jan 2008

Southern Islands

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCI

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

2

-

2048

Shading Units

40

128

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.400 GPixel/s

134.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.400 GTexel/s

-

4.301 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

48.00 GFLOPS

1075 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

300W

TDP

25W

700 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

RV620

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

RV620 LE

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.181 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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