AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 PCIe x1

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 PCIe x1

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 710 PCIe x1 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Boost Clock1050MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1856 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 PCIe x1 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

Lower TDP (19W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition +1075%

4.301 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 710 PCIe x1

0.366 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

VS

GeForce GT 710 PCIe x1

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Mar 2014

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x1

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

192

128

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.816 GPixel/s

134.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.26 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.301 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

366.3 GFLOPS

1075 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

15.26 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GK208B

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

GK208-203-B1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Kepler 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

1.02 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

87 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

19W

700 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.5

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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