NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 AMD Radeon HD 7970

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1683MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (150W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 's Advantages

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

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1070 +70%

6.463 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970

3.789 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1070 +166%

6065

Radeon HD 7970

2279

GeForce GTX 1070

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Radeon HD 7970

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Dec 2011

GeForce 10

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1683 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

15

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

1920

Shading Units

2048

120

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

107.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

202.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

101.0 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.463 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

202.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Tahiti

GP104-200-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

250W

450 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 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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

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