AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 vs NVIDIA P102 101

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 and 10GB VRAM P102 101 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA P102 101 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1670MHz

More VRAM (10GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (250W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 X2

3.789 TFLOPS

P102 101 +182%

10.69 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

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P102 101

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Jan 2018

Southern Islands

Generation

Mining GPUs

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1557 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1670 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

10GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

320bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

25

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

3200

128

TMUs

200

32

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

0 MB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

133.6 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

334.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

167.0 GFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.69 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

334.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

New Zealand

GPU Name

GP102

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GPU Variant

GP102-101-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

11.8 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

471 mm²

Board Design

500W

TDP

250W

900 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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