AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1630 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1785MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 +107%

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1630

1.828 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon HD 7970 +8%

2279

GeForce GTX 1630

2102

Radeon HD 7970

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GeForce GTX 1630

Graphics Card

Dec 2011

Release Date

Jun 2022

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 16

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1740 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1785 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

8

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

512

128

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.56 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

57.12 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

3.656 TFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.828 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

57.12 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

TU117

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

TU117-150-KA-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

4.7 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

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 Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

7.5

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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