AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2013
Mar 2013
Generation
Sea Islands
GeForce 600
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1502 MHz
Base Clock
—
980 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1032 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
192bit
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s
144.2GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
—
Shading Units
2048
768
TMUs
128
64
ROPs
32
24
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per SMX)
L2 Cache
768 KB
384 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
16.51 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
66.05 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
1.585 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
947.2 GFLOPS
66.05 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
GK106
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT(215-0821060)
GK106-240-A1
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Kepler
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
2.54 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
221 mm²
Board Design
TDP
250W
134W
Suggested PSU
600 W
300 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.1
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
CUDA
—
3.0
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.