GeForce GTX 1080 Ti and Radeon HD 7970 X2 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
Radeon HD 7970 X2
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
GP102
New Zealand
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
February 2017
August 2012
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
600 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
3x 8-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1600 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1481 MHz
925 MHz
Floating-point performance
11,340 gflops
2x 3,789 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
11,800 million
4,313 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
3584
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
500 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
91 °C
-
Texture fill rate
354.4
118.4
Memory type
GDDR5X
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
11 GB
3 GB
Memory bus width
352 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
11000 MHz
5500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
484.4 GB/s
264.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Vulkan
+
1.2.131
Ansel
+
-
GPU Boost
3.0
-