AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 133.9GB/s)

1600 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 's Advantages

Lower TDP (215W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 +247%

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470

1.089 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970

VS

GeForce GTX 470

Graphics Card

Dec 2011

Release Date

Mar 2010

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

837 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1280MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

320bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

133.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

14

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

448

128

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

40

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

640 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.02 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.05 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1089 GFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GF100

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

GF100-275-A3

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

215W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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