NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 11GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 Ti and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1582MHz

More VRAM (11GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (484.4GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (250W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +199%

11.34 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

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Radeon HD 7970 X2

Graphics Card

Mar 2017

Release Date

Aug 2012

GeForce 10

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1481 MHz

Base Clock

-

1582 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1376 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

11GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

352bit

Memory Bus

384bit

484.4GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

3584

Shading Units

2048

224

TMUs

128

88

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

0 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

139.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

354.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

177.2 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

11.34 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

354.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP102

GPU Name

New Zealand

GP102-350-K1-A1

GPU Variant

-

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

11.8 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

471 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

500W

600 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

3x 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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