AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7970

NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 730 OEM 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 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 40.10GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 OEM 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

Lower TDP (64W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 +446%

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 730 OEM

0.693 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970

VS

GeForce GT 730 OEM

Graphics Card

Dec 2011

Release Date

Apr 2015

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

40.10GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

384

128

TMUs

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

768 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.216 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.86 GTexel/s

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

692.7 GFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

28.86 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

64W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GK107

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

1.27 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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