AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 OEM

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 760 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 211.2GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 OEM 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1046MHz

Lower TDP (170W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 +34%

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 760 OEM

2.812 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970

VS

GeForce GTX 760 OEM

Graphics Card

Dec 2011

Release Date

Nov 2016

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

993 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1046 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1650 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

211.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

1344

128

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.29 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

117.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.812 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

117.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GK104

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

170W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

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

3.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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