AMD Radeon HD 7990 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

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AMD Radeon HD 7990 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7990 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7990 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 256.3GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 68% (1683MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (150W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7990

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X +57%

6.463 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7990

VS

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Dec 2018

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

950 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1683 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

15

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

1920

128

TMUs

120

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

107.7 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

202.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

101.0 GFLOPS

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.463 TFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

202.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Malta

GPU Name

GP104

Malta XT (215-0849026)

GPU Variant

GP104-200-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

365 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

375W

TDP

150W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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