AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs NVIDIA NVS 810

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7970

NVIDIA NVS 810

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 and 2GB VRAM NVS 810 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 14.40GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA NVS 810 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1033MHz

Lower TDP (68W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 +258%

3.789 TFLOPS

NVS 810

1.058 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970

VS

NVS 810

Graphics Card

Dec 2011

Release Date

Nov 2015

Southern Islands

Generation

NVS

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

902 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1033 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

512

128

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.53 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.06 GTexel/s

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1058 GFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

33.06 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

68W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

8x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GM107

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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