AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 4700 X2

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7970 and NVIDIA Quadro FX 4700 X2 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7970

• Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 8 month(s) later
• 8x more pipelines: 2048 vs 2x 128
• 4.9x better floating-point performance: 3,789 gflops vs 2x 384.0 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 65 nm
• Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 2x 1 GB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4700 X2

• 2x more texture fill rate: 2x 38.4 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 118.4 GTexel / s
• Around 33% lower typical power consumption: 226 Watt vs 300 Watt
• Around 16% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1375 MHz
• Around 25% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 4196 vs 3350
• Around 25% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 4196 vs 3350

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7970
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 4700 X2

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3350 4196
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3350 4196

Compare specifications (specs)