AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and 64MB VRAM GeForce2 Ultra 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

Released 11 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 7.360GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

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GeForce2 Ultra

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Aug 2000

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 2

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 4x

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

230 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

64MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

7.360GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

-

128

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.000 GPixel/s

134.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.301 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

1075 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

NV15

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

GeForce2 Ultra

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Celsius

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

180 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.025 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

88 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

Unknown

700 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

7.0

4.6

OpenGL

1.5

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

-

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