AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 12 GB

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AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM and 12GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 12 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 12 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock1670MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (528.4GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 12 GB +182%

10.69 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

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GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 12 GB

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Unknown

Sea Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1557 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1670 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1376 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

528.4GB/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

Tahiti

GPU Name

GP102

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

-

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

250W

TDP

250W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 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

6.7

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