AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 38.02GB/s)

2000 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 +2531%

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition

0.144 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970

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GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Dec 2011

Release Date

Dec 2008

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 100

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

792 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

38.02GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

6

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

48

128

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

12

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

48 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.200 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

14.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

144.0 GFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

G94B

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

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GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

196 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

75W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 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

1x 6-pin

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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