AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150 OEM

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AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 150 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

Released 3 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (141W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970 OEM +706%

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 150 OEM

0.47 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

VS

GeForce GTS 150 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Mar 2009

Sea Islands

Generation

GeForce 100

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

2048

Shading Units

128

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.81 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

47.23 GTexel/s

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

470.0 GFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

250W

TDP

141W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

G92

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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