GeForce GT 630 vs Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GT 630 |
235 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 . |
Supports PhysX |
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition |
Around 866% 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 | | Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition | |
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GPU Name | GF108 (GF108-400-A1) | vs | Tahiti (Tahiti XT2) |
Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 28 nm |
Die Size | 116 mm² | vs | 352 mm² |
Transistors | 585 million | vs | 4,313 million |
Shaders | 96 | vs | 2048 |
Compute Units | 2 | vs | 32 |
Core clock | 810 MHz | vs | 1000 MHz |
ROPs | 4 | vs | 32 |
TMUs | 16 | vs | 128 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GT 630 | | Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition | |
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Memory Type | DDR3 | vs | GDDR5 |
Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 384 bit |
Memory Speed | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective | vs | 1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective |
Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 3072 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GT 630 | | Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition | |
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TDP | 65 watts | vs | 300 watts |
Release Date | 15 May 2012 | vs | 22 Jun 2012 |
GigaPixels - higher is better
GigaTexels - higher is better
GFLOPs - higher is better
Points (higher is better)