NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Vs AMD Radeon HD 7970

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking	384	435
Place by popularity	9	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	12.46	2.15
Power efficiency	15.61	3.87
Architecture	Pascal (2016−2021)	GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name	GP107	Tahiti
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Design	no data	reference
Release date	25 October 2016 (9 years ago)	9 January 2012 (14 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$139	$549

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

The higher the ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices.

GTX 1050 Ti has 480% better value for money than HD 7970.

Performance to price scatter graph

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	768	2048
Core clock speed	1291 MHz	no data
Boost clock speed	1392 MHz	925 MHz
Number of transistors	3,300 million	4,313 million
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	75 Watt	300 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature	97 °C	no data
Texture fill rate	66.82	118.4
Floating-point processing power	2.138 TFLOPS	3.789 TFLOPS
ROPs	32	32
TMUs	48	128
L1 Cache	288 KB	512 KB
L2 Cache	1024 KB	768 KB

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Bus support	no data	PCIe 2.1 x16
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	145 mm	275 mm
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	6 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	7008 MHz	1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth	112 GB/s	264 GB/s
Shared memory	-	-

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x HDMI 1.4a, 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Eyefinity	-	+
HDMI	+	+
G-SYNC support	+	-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

CrossFire	-	+
FreeSync	-	+
VR Ready	+	no data
Ansel	+	-

API and SDK support

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (12_1)	DirectX® 11
Shader Model	6.4	6.5 (5.1)
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	2.1 (1.2)
Vulkan	1.2.131	-
CUDA	+	-