AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 7800 GTX 512 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512 's Advantages

Lower TDP (108W vs 500W)

Score

Radeon HD 7970 X2

VS

GeForce 7800 GTX 512

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Nov 2005

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 7 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

-

128

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.000 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

New Zealand

GPU Name

G70

-

GPU Variant

GF-7800-GTX-512-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

110 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.302 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

333 mm²

Board Design

500W

TDP

108W

900 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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