AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295

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AMD Radeon HD 7970

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 295 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

1808 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (250W vs 289W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 +535%

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 295

0.596 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970

VS

GeForce GTX 295

Graphics Card

Dec 2011

Release Date

Jan 2009

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

448bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

30

2048

Shading Units

240

128

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

28

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

46.08 GTexel/s

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3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

596.2 GFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

74.52 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

289W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GT200B

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

G200-401-B3

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

470 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.3

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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