AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB 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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 84.10GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 45% (1518MHz vs 1050MHz)

Lower TDP (75W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition +84%

4.301 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

2.332 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

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GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

May 2018

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1392 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

1518 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1752 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

96bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

84.10GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

6

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

768

128

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

36.43 GPixel/s

134.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.86 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

36.43 GFLOPS

4.301 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.332 TFLOPS

1075 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

72.86 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GP107

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

GP107-301-K1-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

3.3 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

132 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

75W

700 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

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CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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