AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs ATI Radeon X1650 GTO

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition ATI Radeon X1650 GTO

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1650 GTO 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 6 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 12.54GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

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Radeon X1650 GTO

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Dec 2007

Southern Islands

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

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

392 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.54GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

-

128

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.348 GPixel/s

134.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.348 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.301 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

1075 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

RV530

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

RV530 LE

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ultra-Threaded SE

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

90 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.157 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

150 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

Unknown

700 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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