AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7970

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6 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 192.0GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1590MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 +32%

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6

2.849 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970

VS

GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6

Graphics Card

Dec 2011

Release Date

Apr 2020

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 16

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1410 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1590 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

14

2048

Shading Units

896

128

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

50.88 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

89.04 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

5.699 TFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.849 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

89.04 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

TU117

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

TU117-300-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

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

6.6

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