NVIDIA Titan X Pascal vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Titan X Pascal 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. 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.

NVIDIA Titan X Pascal

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Titan X Pascal

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 53% higher core clock speed: 1417 MHz vs 925 MHz
Around 45% better floating-point performance: 10,974 gflops vs 2x 3,789 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 16 nm vs 28 nm
2x lower typical power consumption: 250 Watt vs 500 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 2x 3 GB
Around 82% higher memory clock speed: 10008 MHz vs 5500 MHz
Around 1% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 17.829 vs 17.707

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	2 August 2016 vs 31 August 2012
Core clock speed	1417 MHz vs 925 MHz
Floating-point performance	10,974 gflops vs 2x 3,789 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt vs 500 Watt
Maximum memory size	12 GB vs 2x 3 GB
Memory clock speed	10008 MHz vs 5500 MHz
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	17.829 vs 17.707

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

6.2x more texture fill rate: 2x 118.4 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 342.9 GTexel / s
Around 14% higher pipelines: 2x 2048 vs 3584

Texture fill rate	2x 118.4 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 342.9 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2x 2048 vs 3584

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Titan X Pascal
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

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

GPU 1

GPU 2

17.829

17.707

Name	NVIDIA Titan X Pascal	AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2
Geekbench - OpenCL	67360
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	165.792
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	2368.267
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	17.829	17.707
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	21.354
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	992.132
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	10841
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3696
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3333
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	10841
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3696
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3333
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	9625

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Titan X Pascal	AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2
Essentials
Architecture	Pascal	GCN 1.0
Code name	GP102	New Zealand
Launch date	2 August 2016	31 August 2012
Launch price (MSRP)	$1,199	$899
Place in performance rating	341	338
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1531 MHz
Core clock speed	1417 MHz	925 MHz
Floating-point performance	10,974 gflops	2x 3,789 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	3584	2x 2048
Texture fill rate	342.9 GTexel / s	2x 118.4 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt	500 Watt
Transistor count	11,800 million	4,313 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	267 mm	292 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	3x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	12 GB	2x 3 GB
Memory bandwidth	480.4 GB / s	2x 264.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit	2x 384 Bit
Memory clock speed	10008 MHz	5500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5X	GDDR5
Shared memory	0