AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX TITAN to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock876MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.4GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX TITAN +24%

4.709 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon HD 7970

2279

GeForce GTX TITAN +27%

2900

Radeon HD 7970

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GeForce GTX TITAN

Graphics Card

Dec 2011

Release Date

Feb 2013

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

836 MHz

-

Boost Clock

876 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

2688

128

TMUs

224

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.06 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

196.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.709 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1.570 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GK110

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

GK110-400-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

7.08 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

561 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

250W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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

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CUDA

3.5

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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