AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and 512MB VRAM Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL 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 5 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 44.16GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL 's Advantages

Lower TDP (130W vs 300W)

Score

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

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Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Jan 2007

Southern Islands

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

690 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

44.16GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

-

128

TMUs

12

32

ROPs

12

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.900 GPixel/s

134.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.900 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.301 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

1075 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

RV570

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

RV570 XT (215PADAKA12FG)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.33 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

230 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

130W

700 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1 (full) 3.0 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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