AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 256.3GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1683MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

384 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (180W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 X2

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti +116%

8.186 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

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GeForce GTX 1070 Ti

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Nov 2017

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1607 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1683 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

19

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

2432

128

TMUs

152

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

107.7 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

255.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

127.9 GFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.186 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

255.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

New Zealand

GPU Name

GP104

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GPU Variant

GP104-300-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

500W

TDP

180W

900 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

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CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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