AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7970

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GTX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 70.40GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 's Advantages

Lower TDP (141W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 +706%

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GTX

0.47 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970

VS

GeForce 9800 GTX

Graphics Card

Dec 2011

Release Date

Jan 2009

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1100 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

70.40GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

2048

Shading Units

128

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.81 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

47.23 GTexel/s

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

470.0 GFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

250W

TDP

141W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 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

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

G92B

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

G92-420-B1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

260 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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