NVIDIA TITAN X Pascal vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM TITAN X Pascal and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA TITAN X Pascal 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock1531MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (480.4GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
TITAN X Pascal
+189%
10.97 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 8970 OEM
3.789 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2016
Release Date
Jan 2013
GeForce 10
Generation
Sea Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1417 MHz
Base Clock
-
1531 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1251 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR5X
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
384bit
480.4GB/s
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
32
28
SM Count
-
3584
Shading Units
2048
224
TMUs
128
96
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
3 MB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
147.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
342.9 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
171.5 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
10.97 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
342.9 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
947.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
250W
600 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GP102
GPU Name
Tahiti
GP102-400-A1
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT
(215-0821060)
Pascal
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
16 nm
Process Size
28 nm
11.8 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
471 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
6.1
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
5.1
