NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Z vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Z 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.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Z

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Z

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 41% higher pipelines: 2x 2880 vs 2x 2048
Around 33% better floating-point performance: 2x 5,046 gflops vs 2x 3,789 gflops
Around 33% lower typical power consumption: 375 Watt vs 500 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 2x 3 GB

Launch date	28 May 2014 vs 31 August 2012
Pipelines	2x 2880 vs 2x 2048
Floating-point performance	2x 5,046 gflops vs 2x 3,789 gflops
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	375 Watt vs 500 Watt
Maximum memory size	12 GB vs 2x 3 GB

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Around 31% higher core clock speed: 925 MHz vs 705 MHz
6.3x more texture fill rate: 2x 118.4 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 338 billion / sec
785.7x more memory clock speed: 5500 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s
2.2x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 17.707 vs 7.89

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	925 MHz vs 705 MHz
Texture fill rate	2x 118.4 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 338 billion / sec
Memory clock speed	5500 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	17.707 vs 7.89

Compare benchmarks

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

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)

GPU 1

GPU 2

7.89

17.707

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Z	AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2
PassMark - G3D Mark	8905
PassMark - G2D Mark	639
Geekbench - OpenCL	22732
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	66.419
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1261.593
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	7.89	17.707
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	17.882
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	309.857
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	8124
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2413
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2226
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	8124
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2413
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2226
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	17055

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Z	AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	GCN 1.0
Code name	GK110B	New Zealand
Launch date	28 May 2014	31 August 2012
Launch price (MSRP)	$2,999	$899
Place in performance rating	340	338
Price now	$1,580
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	6.46
Technical info
Boost clock speed	876 MHz
Core clock speed	705 MHz	925 MHz
CUDA cores	5760
Floating-point performance	2x 5,046 gflops	2x 3,789 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	2x 2880	2x 2048
Texture fill rate	338 billion / sec	2x 118.4 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	375 Watt	500 Watt
Transistor count	7,080 million	4,313 million
Video outputs and ports
Audio input for HDMI	Internal
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort, One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI...	1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
G-SYNC support
HDCP
HDMI
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
Supplementary power connectors	Two 8-pin	3x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL	4.4	4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	12 GB	2x 3 GB
Memory bandwidth	672 GB / s	2x 264.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	768-bit (384-bit per GPU)	2x 384 Bit
Memory clock speed	7.0 GB/s	5500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Technologies
3D Gaming
3D Vision
3D Vision Live
Adaptive VSync
Blu Ray 3D
CUDA
FXAA
GPU Boost
TXAA