AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti OEM

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AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 650 Ti 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 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 86.40GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (110W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970 OEM +165%

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 650 Ti OEM

1.425 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

VS

GeForce GTX 650 Ti OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Mar 2013

Sea Islands

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1350 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

86.40GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

768

128

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.85 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

59.39 GTexel/s

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1425 GFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.39 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

110W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GK106

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

2.54 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

221 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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