GeForce4 Ti 4800 SE vs Radeon HD 7970 X2

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Kelvin (2001−2003)
GPU code nameNew ZealandNV28 A2
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date31 August 2012 (12 years ago)16 February 2003 (21 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$899 no data

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 cores2048no data
Core clock speed925 MHz275 MHz
Number of transistors4,313 million36 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)500 Wattno data
Texture fill rate118.42.200
Floating-point processing power3.789 TFLOPSno data
ROPs324
TMUs1288

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16AGP 8x
Length292 mm216 mm
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors3x 8-pinNone

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 typeGDDR5SDR
Maximum RAM amount3 GB128 MB
Memory bus width384 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1375 MHz275 MHz
Memory bandwidth264.0 GB/s4.4 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)8.1
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.61.3
OpenCL1.2N/A
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 31 August 2012 16 February 2003
Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 128 MB
Chip lithography 28 nm 150 nm

HD 7970 X2 has an age advantage of 9 years, a 2300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 435.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7970 X2 and GeForce4 Ti 4800 SE. We've got no test results to judge.


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