Product Compare

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 6 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Sep 2013 Aug 2012
Generation GeForce 700 Southern Islands
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 863 MHz
Boost Clock 902 MHz
Memory Clock 1502 MHz 1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 6GB 3GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 384bit 384bit
Bandwidth 288.4GB/s 264.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units 2304 2048
TMUs 192 128
ROPs 48 32
L1 Cache 16 KB (per SMX) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 1536 KB 768 KB
Compute Units 32
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 43.30 GPixel/s 29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 173.2 GTexel/s 118.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 4.156 TFLOPS 3.789 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 173.2 GFLOPS 947.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name GK110B New Zealand
GPU Variant GK110-301-B1
Architecture Kepler GCN 1.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 7.08 billion 4.313 billion
Die Size 561 mm² 352 mm²
Board Design
TDP 250W 500W
Suggested PSU 600 W 900 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin 3x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (11_1) 12 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 1.2
Vulkan 1.1 1.2
CUDA 3.5
Shader Model 5.1 5.1