GeForce GT 320 OEM vs Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

GeForce GT 320 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 2 Feb 2010
GeForce GT 320 OEM
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Jun 2012
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 320 OEM

257 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 .
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 320 OEMRadeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
GPU NameGT215 (GT215-301-A3)vsTahiti (Tahiti XT2)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size144 mm²vs352 mm²
Transistors727 millionvs4,313 million
Shaders72vs2048
Compute Units3vs32
Core clock540 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs8vs32
TMUs24vs128

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 320 OEMRadeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed790 MHz
1580 MHz effective
vs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 320 OEMRadeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
TDP43 wattsvs300 watts
Release Date2 Feb 2010vs22 Jun 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 320 OEM
    4.32 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    32.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 320 OEM
    13.00 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    128.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 320 OEM
    25.30 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    288.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 320 OEM
    187.50 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    4096.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better