Radeon HD 7970 X2 and GeForce GT 530 OEM - video card comparison
Radeon HD 7970 X2
GeForce GT 530 OEM
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
New Zealand
GF108
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2012
May 2011
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
3x 8-pin
None
Core clock speed
925 MHz
700 MHz
Floating-point performance
2x 3,789 gflops
268.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
585 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
96
Power consumption (TDP)
500 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
118.4
11.20
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
5500 MHz
1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
264.0 GB/s
28.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
2.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A