GeForce GT 440 vs Radeon HD 7970 X2

GeForce GT 440
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Feb 2011
GeForce GT 440
Radeon HD 7970 X2
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 31 Aug 2012
Radeon HD 7970 X2
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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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 7970 X2

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7970 X2

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 440Radeon HD 7970 X2
GPU NameGF108 (GF108-400-A1)vsNew Zealand ()
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size116 mm²vs365 mm²
Transistors585 millionvs4,313 million
Shaders96vs2048
Compute Units2vs32
Core clock810 MHzvs925 MHz
ROPs4vs32
TMUs16vs128

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 440Radeon HD 7970 X2
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs384 bit x2
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1375 MHz
5500 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 440Radeon HD 7970 X2
TDP65 wattsvs500 watts
Release Date1 Feb 2011vs31 Aug 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 440
    3.24 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7970 X2
    59.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 440
    13.00 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7970 X2
    236.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 440
    28.80 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7970 X2
    528.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 440
    311.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7970 X2
    7578.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better