Comparison of GeForce GTX 980 and Radeon HD 7970

Attribute	GeForce GTX 980 ×	Radeon HD 7970 ×
GPU
Release year (year)	2014	2011
GPU brand	Nvidia	AMD
GPU name	GM204	Tahiti XT
Market	Desktop	Desktop
Clock speed (MHz)	1,127	925
Turbo clock speed (MHz)	1,216	-
Is dual GPU	-	-
Model	GeForce GTX 980	Radeon HD 7970
Memory
Memory (MB)	4,096	3,072
Memory bandwidth (GB/s)	224.4	264
Memory bus (bit)	256	384
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Memory clock speed (MHz)	1,753	1,375
Effective memory clock speed (MHz)	7,012	5,500
Noise and power
TDP (W)	165	250
Load power consumption (W)	-	391
Idle power consumption (W)	-	113
Load noise level (dB)	-	55.2
Idle noise level (dB)	-	40.2
Raw performance
Pixel rate (GPixel/s)	77.82	29.6
Render output processors	64	32
Texture mapping units	128	128
Shading units	2,048	2,048
Floating-point performance (GFLOPS)	4,981	3,789
Compute units	-	32
Texture rate (GTexel/s)	155.6	118.4
Benchmarks
Metro: Last Light	83.5	-
Crysis 3	58.3	-
Bioshock Infinite	116.35	78
Hitman: Absolution	-	73
Cloud Gate Factor	22.51	21.46
Battlefield 4	93.4	-
Face detection (mPixels/s)	-	49.05
Bitcoin mining (mHash/s)	-	447.28
Sky Diver Factor	434.58	380.04
Thief	81.15	-
Fire Strike Factor	76.57	62.9
Ocean surface simulation (frames/s)	-	261.64