NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X and AMD Radeon HD 7970 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • Around 8% higher core clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 925 MHz
  • 2x lower typical power consumption: 250 Watt vs 500 Watt
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 2x 3 GB
Launch date 17 March 2015 vs 31 August 2012
Core clock speed 1000 MHz vs 925 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 250 Watt vs 500 Watt
Maximum memory size 12 GB vs 2x 3 GB

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

  • 11x more texture fill rate: 2x 118.4 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 192 billion / sec
  • Around 33% higher pipelines: 2x 2048 vs 3072
  • Around 13% better floating-point performance: 2x 3,789 gflops vs 6,691 gflops
  • 785.7x more memory clock speed: 5500 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s
  • Around 45% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 17.707 vs 12.245
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 2x 118.4 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 192 billion / sec
Pipelines 2x 2048 vs 3072
Floating-point performance 2x 3,789 gflops vs 6,691 gflops
Memory clock speed 5500 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 17.707 vs 12.245

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
12.245
17.707
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2
PassMark - G3D Mark 12929
PassMark - G2D Mark 834
Geekbench - OpenCL 41155
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 157.231
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1722.566
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 12.245 17.707
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 38.225
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 518.554
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 9834
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3700
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3343
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 9834
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3700
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3343
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 5307

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Essentials

Architecture Maxwell 2.0 GCN 1.0
Code name GM200 New Zealand
Launch date 17 March 2015 31 August 2012
Launch price (MSRP) $999 $899
Place in performance rating 327 328
Price now $1,999.99
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 7.38

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1075 MHz
Core clock speed 1000 MHz 925 MHz
CUDA cores 3072
Floating-point performance 6,691 gflops 2x 3,789 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 3072 2x 2048
Texture fill rate 192 billion / sec 2x 118.4 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 250 Watt 500 Watt
Transistor count 8,000 million 4,313 million

Video outputs and ports

Audio input for HDMI Internal
Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2 1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
HDCP
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 3.0
Height 4.376" (11.1 cm)
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 10.5" (26.7 cm) 292 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 600 Watt
SLI options 4x
Supplementary power connectors 6-pin + 8-pin 3x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.5 4.5

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 2x 3 GB
Memory bandwidth 336.5 GB / s 2x 264.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 384 Bit 2x 384 Bit
Memory clock speed 7.0 GB/s 5500 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5

Technologies

CUDA
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost