AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs 3dfx Voodoo4-2 4200 PCI 32 MB

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AMD Radeon HD 7970

3dfx Voodoo4-2 4200 PCI 32 MB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 and 32MB VRAM Voodoo4 2 4200 PCI 32 MB 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 32GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 2.656GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

3dfx Voodoo4-2 4200 PCI 32 MB 's Advantages

Lower TDP (15W vs 250W)

Score

Radeon HD 7970

VS

Voodoo4 2 4200 PCI 32 MB

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

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

166 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

32MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

2.656GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

-

128

TMUs

2

32

ROPs

2

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

332.0 MPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

332.0 MTexel/s

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

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 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

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

6.0

4.6

OpenGL

1.1

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

-

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