GeForce GT 630 Rev. 2 vs Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GT 630 Rev. 2 |
275 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition . |
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
Supports PhysX |
Supports G-Sync |
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition |
Around 668% higher average synthetic performance. |
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
Supports Mantle |
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
The Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| GeForce GT 630 Rev. 2 | | Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition | |
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GPU Name | GK208 (GK208-301-A1) | vs | Tahiti (Tahiti XT2) |
Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
Die Size | 87 mm² | vs | 352 mm² |
Transistors | unknown | vs | 4,313 million |
Shaders | 384 | vs | 2048 |
Compute Units | 2 | vs | 32 |
Core clock | 902 MHz | vs | 1000 MHz |
ROPs | 8 | vs | 32 |
TMUs | 16 | vs | 128 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GT 630 Rev. 2 | | Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition | |
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Memory Type | DDR3 | vs | GDDR5 |
Bus Width | 64 bit | vs | 384 bit |
Memory Speed | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective | vs | 1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective |
Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 3072 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GT 630 Rev. 2 | | Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition | |
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TDP | 25 watts | vs | 300 watts |
Release Date | 29 May 2013 | vs | 22 Jun 2012 |
GigaPixels - higher is better
GigaTexels - higher is better
GFLOPs - higher is better
Points (higher is better)