AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 7950

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition AMD Radeon HD 7950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7950 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition +50%

4.301 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950

2.867 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

VS

Radeon HD 7950

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Jan 2012

Southern Islands

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

28

2048

Shading Units

1792

128

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

134.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

89.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.301 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.867 TFLOPS

1075 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

716.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Tahiti

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

200W

700 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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