AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1468MHz

Lower TDP (30W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 +236%

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1030

1.127 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon HD 7970 +110%

2279

GeForce GT 1030

1083

Radeon HD 7970

VS

GeForce GT 1030

Graphics Card

Dec 2011

Release Date

May 2017

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1228 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1468 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

48.06GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

3

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

384

128

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.49 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

35.23 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

17.62 GFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1127 GFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

35.23 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GP108

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

GP108-300-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

1.8 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

74 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

30W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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