AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Aug 2012
Jun 2017
Generation
Southern Islands
GeForce 10 Mobile
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
2002 MHz
Base Clock
-
1215 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1379 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
256bit
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s
256.3GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
-
Shading Units
2048
2048
TMUs
128
128
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
2 MB
SM Count
-
16
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
88.26 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
176.5 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
5.648 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
947.2 GFLOPS
176.5 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
88.26 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
New Zealand
GP104
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Pascal
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
16 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
7.2 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
314 mm²
GPU Variant
-
N17E-G2-A1
Board Design
TDP
500W
115W
Suggested PSU
900 W
-
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
3x 8-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
CUDA
-
6.1