AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GRID M60-2Q

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Tahiti GM204
GPU variant Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)
Architecture GCN 1.0 Maxwell 2.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 28 nm 28 nm
Number of transistors 4,313 million 5,200 million
Die size 352 mm² 398 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Jun 22nd, 2012 Aug 30th, 2015
Generation Southern Islands GRID
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Launch price 499 USD
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Reviews 191 in our database
Predecessor Northern Islands
Successor Sea Islands

Clocks

Base clock 1000 MHz 557 MHz
Boost clock 1050 MHz 1178 MHz
Memory clock 1500 MHz 6 Gbps effective 1253 MHz 5 Gbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 3 GB 2 GB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory bus width 384 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 288.0 GB/s 160.4 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 2048 2048
TMUs 128 128
ROPs 32 64
Compute units 32
Cache L1 16 KB (per CU) 48 KB (per SMM)
Cache L2 768 KB 2 MB
SMM count 16

Performance

Pixel rate 33.60 GPixel/s 75.39 GPixel/s
Texture rate 134.4 GTexel/s 150.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 4.301 TFLOPS 4.825 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 1,075 GFLOPS (1:4) 150.8 GFLOPS (1:32)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot Dual-slot
Length 275 mm 10.8 inches 267 mm 10.5 inches
Width 111 mm 4.4 inches
Height 38 mm 1.5 inches
TDP 300 W 225 W
Suggested PSU 700 W 550 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI2x mini-DisplayPort No outputs
Power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin 1x 8-pin
Board number C386-37

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (11_1) 12 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 3.0
Vulkan 1.2 1.1
Shader model 5.1 6.4
CUDA 5.2

Other Features

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