AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7970

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 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 112.1GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1455MHz

Lower TDP (75W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 +103%

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1050

1.862 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon HD 7970 +27%

2279

GeForce GTX 1050

1789

Radeon HD 7970

VS

GeForce GTX 1050

Graphics Card

Dec 2011

Release Date

Oct 2016

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1354 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1455 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1752 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.1GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

5

2048

Shading Units

640

128

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

46.56 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

58.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

29.10 GFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.862 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

58.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

75W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GP107

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

GP107-300-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

3.3 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

132 mm²

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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