GeForce GT 440 vs Radeon HD 7970 X2
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GT 440 |
435 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 7970 X2 . |
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 X2 |
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7970 X2
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce GT 440 | | Radeon HD 7970 X2 | |
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GPU Name | GF108 (GF108-400-A1) | vs | New Zealand () |
Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 28 nm |
Die Size | 116 mm² | vs | 365 mm² |
Transistors | 585 million | vs | 4,313 million |
Shaders | 96 | vs | 2048 |
Compute Units | 2 | vs | 32 |
Core clock | 810 MHz | vs | 925 MHz |
ROPs | 4 | vs | 32 |
TMUs | 16 | vs | 128 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GT 440 | | Radeon HD 7970 X2 | |
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Memory Type | DDR3 | vs | GDDR5 |
Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 384 bit x2 |
Memory Speed | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective | vs | 1375 MHz
5500 MHz effective |
Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 3072 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GT 440 | | Radeon HD 7970 X2 | |
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TDP | 65 watts | vs | 500 watts |
Release Date | 1 Feb 2011 | vs | 31 Aug 2012 |
GeForce GT 440
3.24 GP/s
Radeon HD 7970 X2
59.20 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GT 440
13.00 GT/s
Radeon HD 7970 X2
236.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GT 440
28.80 GB/s
Radeon HD 7970 X2
528.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GT 440
311.00 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 7970 X2
7578.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better