Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and GeForce GT 1030 GK107 - video card comparison
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
GeForce GT 1030 GK107
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name
Tahiti
GK107
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2012
September 2018
Bus support
PCIe 2.1 x16
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
1050 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
1058 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,301 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
1,270 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
384
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
65 Watt
Texture fill rate
134.4
33.86
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1500 MHz
5000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
288 GB/s
80 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
3.0
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
-
1.1.126
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-