AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7970 and NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

AMD Radeon HD 7970

NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7970

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 8 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm

Launch date	22 December 2011 vs 17 April 2007
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 90 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i

7.5x lower typical power consumption: 40 Watt vs 300 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	40 Watt vs 300 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7970
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i

Name	AMD Radeon HD 7970	NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i
Geekbench - OpenCL	34541
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	84.413
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1390.592
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	7.336
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	101.929
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	481.76
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	9448
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3704
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3350
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	9448
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3704
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3350
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	2276
PassMark - G2D Mark		367
PassMark - G3D Mark		129

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 7970	NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Tesla
Code name	Tahiti	MCP79MX
Design	AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series
Launch date	22 December 2011	17 April 2007
Launch price (MSRP)	$549
Place in performance rating	464	467
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	925 MHz
Floating-point performance	3,789 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	2048
Stream Processors	2048
Texture fill rate	118.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	300 Watt	40 Watt
Transistor count	4,313 million	210 million
Core clock speed		450 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCIe 2.1 x16
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCI
Length	274 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	11	9.0c
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	3 GB
Memory bandwidth	264 GB/s
Memory bus width	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	1375 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5
Shared memory	0
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
FreeSync