AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1379MHz

Lower TDP (20W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 X2 +257%

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

1.059 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

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GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Mar 2018

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1152 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1379 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR4

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

16.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

3

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

384

128

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

22.06 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.10 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

16.55 GFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1059 GFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

33.10 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

New Zealand

GPU Name

GP108

-

GPU Variant

GP108-310-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

1.8 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

74 mm²

Board Design

500W

TDP

20W

900 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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