AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs AMD Radeon R7 350 640SP

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

AMD Radeon R7 350 640SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 350 640SP 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 72.00GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 350 640SP 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

Lower TDP (55W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition +263%

4.301 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 350 640SP

1.184 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

VS

Radeon R7 350 640SP

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Jan 2019

Southern Islands

Generation

Pirate 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

1125 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

10

-

2048

Shading Units

640

128

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.80 GPixel/s

134.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.00 GTexel/s

-

4.301 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1184 GFLOPS

1075 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

74.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

55W

700 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Cape Verde

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

Cape Verde XT

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275

2

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

3

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA NVS 510

4

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

5

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

6

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs AMD FirePro S7150

7

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE v2

8

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

9

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs ATI FireMV 2400 PCI

10

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs AMD FirePro W8100

Related News

1

CXMT Reportedly Achieves 80% Yield in DDR5 Production

2

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N

3

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market

4

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

5

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

6

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

7

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

8

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

9

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

10

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage