NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1076MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (250W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +40%

6.06 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

4.301 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

VS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

Jun 2012

GeForce 900

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1076 MHz

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

336.6GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

2816

Shading Units

2048

176

TMUs

128

96

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

103.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.60 GPixel/s

189.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

134.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

6.060 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.301 TFLOPS

189.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1075 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM200

GPU Name

Tahiti

GM200-310-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

8 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

601 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

300W

600 W

Suggested PSU

700 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 Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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