AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs 3dfx Voodoo4-2 4200 AGP

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 3dfx Voodoo4-2 4200 AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 and 16MB VRAM Voodoo4 2 4200 AGP 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 2.288GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

3dfx Voodoo4-2 4200 AGP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (15W vs 250W)

Score

Radeon HD 7970

VS

Voodoo4 2 4200 AGP

Graphics Card

Dec 2011

Release Date

Unknown

Southern Islands

Generation

Voodoo4-2

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 4x

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

143 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

16MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

2.288GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

-

128

TMUs

2

32

ROPs

2

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

286.0 MPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

286.0 MTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

VSA-101

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

Daytona (355-0025-221)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Voodoo Scalable

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

180 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.014 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

112 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

15W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

6.0

4.6

OpenGL

1.1

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

-

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