GeForce GTX TITAN and Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition - video card comparison
GeForce GTX TITAN
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
GK110
Tahiti
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
February 2013
June 2012
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
PCIe 2.1 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
One 8-pin and one 6-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
876 MHz
1050 MHz
Core clock speed
837 MHz
-
CUDA cores
2688
-
Floating-point performance
4,709 gflops
4,301 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
7,080 million
4,313 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2688
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
250 Watt
Texture fill rate
187.5 billion/sec
134.4
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
3 GB
Memory bus width
384-bit GDDR5
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
6.0 GB/s
1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
288.4 GB/s
288 GB/s
Display Connectors
One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI, One DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
Eyefinity
-
1
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
DirectX® 11
CUDA
+
-
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
1.1.126
-
3D Gaming
+
-
3D Vision
+
-
3D Vision Live
+
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
Blu Ray 3D
+
-
CrossFire
-
1
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
-
1
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-