GeForce GTX 295 and Radeon HD 7970 X2 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 295

Radeon HD 7970 X2

Architecture

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

GPU code name

GT200B

New Zealand

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

January 2009

August 2012

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

6-pin & 8-pin

3x 8-pin

SLI options

+

-

Core clock speed

576 MHz

925 MHz

CUDA cores

480

-

CUDA cores per GPU

240

-

Floating-point performance

2x 596.2 gflops

2x 3,789 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

55 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

1,400 million

4,313 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

240

2048

Power consumption (TDP)

289 Watt

500 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

-

Texture fill rate

92.2 billion/sec

118.4

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

1792 MB

3 GB

Memory bus width

896 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

999 MHz

5500 MHz

Memory bandwidth

223.8 GB/s

264.0 GB/s

Standard memory config per GPU

896 MB

-

Display Connectors

Two Dual Link DVIHDMI

1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

S/PDIF

-

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

12 (11_1)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

OpenGL

2.1

4.6

Shader Model

4.0

5.1

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.131

High Dynamic-Range Lighting (HDRR)

128bit

-