Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs Radeon HD 8970 OEM

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Jun 2012
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Radeon HD 8970 OEM
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Jan 2013
Radeon HD 8970 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8970 OEM

50 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 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 7970 GHz EditionRadeon HD 8970 OEM
GPU NameTahiti (Tahiti XT2)vsTahiti (Tahiti XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size352 mm²vs352 mm²
Transistors4,313 millionvs4,313 million
Shaders2048vs2048
Compute Units32vs32
Core clock1000 MHzvs925 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs128vs128

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 7970 GHz EditionRadeon HD 8970 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width384 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
vs1375 MHz
5500 MHz effective
Memory Size3072 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 7970 GHz EditionRadeon HD 8970 OEM
TDP300 wattsvs250 watts
Release Date22 Jun 2012vs8 Jan 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    32.00 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 8970 OEM
    29.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    128.00 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 8970 OEM
    118.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    288.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 8970 OEM
    264.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    4096.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 8970 OEM
    3789.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better