Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and Tesla P40 - video card comparison

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

Tesla P40

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Pascal (2016−2021)

GPU code name

Tahiti

GP102

Market segment

Desktop

Workstation

Release date

June 2012

September 2016

Bus support

PCIe 2.1 x16

-

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

8-pin EPS

Boost clock speed

1050 MHz

1531 MHz

Core clock speed

-

1303 MHz

Floating-point performance

4,301 gflops

11,758 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

16 nm

Number of transistors

4,313 million

11,800 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

3840

Power consumption (TDP)

250 Watt

250 Watt

Texture fill rate

134.4

367.4

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

3 GB

24 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

1500 MHz

7.2 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

288 GB/s

347.1 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort

No outputs

Eyefinity

1

-

HDMI

+

-

DisplayPort support

-

-

DirectX

DirectX® 11

12 (12_1)

CUDA

-

6.1

Mantle

-

-

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.7

Vulkan

-

1.3

AppAcceleration

-

-

CrossFire

1

-

Enduro

-

-

FreeSync

1

-

HD3D

-

-

PowerTune

-

-

TrueAudio

-

-

ZeroCore

-

-