NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970M
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2012
Apr 2012
Generation
GeForce 600
London
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
915 MHz
-
Boost Clock
980 MHz
-
Memory Clock
1502 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
192.3GB/s
153.6GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1344
1280
TMUs
112
80
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
512 KB
Compute Units
-
20
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
27.44 GPixel/s
27.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
109.8 GTexel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.634 TFLOPS
2.176 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
109.8 GFLOPS
136.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GK104
Wimbledon
GPU Variant
GK104-325-A2
Wimbledon XT(216-0836036)
Architecture
Kepler
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
3.54 billion
2.8 billion
Die Size
294 mm²
212 mm²
Board Design
TDP
170W
100W
Suggested PSU
450 W
-
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.1
1.2
CUDA
3.0
-
Shader Model
5.1
5.1