AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 4710

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

ATI Radeon HD 4710

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4710 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 3 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

1728 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 4710 's Advantages

Lower TDP (59W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition +796%

4.301 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4710

0.48 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

VS

Radeon HD 4710

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Sep 2008

Southern Islands

Generation

Radeon R700

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

800 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

4

-

2048

Shading Units

320

128

TMUs

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.000 GPixel/s

134.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.00 GTexel/s

-

4.301 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

480.0 GFLOPS

1075 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

300W

TDP

59W

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

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

RV730

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

RV730 CE

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.514 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

146 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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