NVIDIA Quadro NVS 440 PCIe x16 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2
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Graphics Card
Release Date
Feb 2006
Aug 2012
Generation
Quadro NVS
Southern Islands
Type
Professional
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1855 MHz
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Boost Clock
2495 MHz
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Memory Clock
250 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
128MB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
384bit
Bandwidth
8.000GB/s
264.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
96
32
Shading Units
6144
2048
TMUs
8
128
ROPs
4
32
RT Cores
96
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L1 Cache
256 KB per Array
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
6 MB
768 KB
L3 Cache
96 MB
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Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
1.000 GPixel/s
29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
2.000 GTexel/s
118.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
122.6 TFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
61.32 TFLOPS
3.789 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1.916 TFLOPS
947.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
NV43
New Zealand
GPU Variant
NVS440 NPB
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Architecture
Curie
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
110 nm
28 nm
Transistors
0.146 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
154 mm²
352 mm²
Board Design
TDP
31W
500W
Suggested PSU
200 W
900 W
Outputs
2x DMS-59
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
None
3x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
2.0 (full)2.1 (partial)
4.6
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
1.2
Shader Model
3.0
5.1
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.