AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 705 OEM

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AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce GT 705 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 705 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 13.20GB/s)

2000 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 705 OEM 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Lower TDP (29W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970 OEM +2155%

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 705 OEM

0.168 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

VS

GeForce GT 705 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Mar 2014

Sea Islands

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

825 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

13.20GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

1

2048

Shading Units

48

128

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.748 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.992 GTexel/s

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

167.8 GFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

13.98 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

29W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GF119

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

GF119-300-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

79 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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