NVS 810 vs Radeon HD 7970

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between NVS 810 and Radeon HD 7970, there are a couple of things to consider. Cards with more VRAM in general perform better and allow you to play on higher graphics settings. Size also makes a difference. A model with a large heatsink can occupy up to three expansion slots on a motherboard. Be sure you have enough room in your PC case. When comparing GPUs with different architectures, more processing cores and even higher TFLOPS will not always translate to better performance. To help you decide which GPU you need, we have measured frame rates in a number of popular games. For more on how the NVS 810 stacks up against Radeon HD 7970, check out specs charts below.

Main Specs

  NVS 810 Radeon HD 7970
Power consumption (TDP) 68 Watt 300 Watt
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Memory type DDR3 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 3 GB
Display Connectors 8x mini-DisplayPort 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
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  • Radeon HD 7970 has 341% more power consumption, than NVS 810.
  • Both video cards are using PCIe 3.0 x16 interface connection to a motherboard.
  • Radeon HD 7970 has 1 GB more memory, than NVS 810.
  • Both cards are used in Desktops.
  • NVS 810 is build with Maxwell architecture, and Radeon HD 7970 - with GCN.
  • NVS 810 and Radeon HD 7970 are manufactured by 28 nm process technology.
  • Radeon HD 7970 is 76 mm longer, than NVS 810.
  • Memory clock speed of NVS 810 is 425 MHz higher, than Radeon HD 7970.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 2−3 35−40
ultra / 1080p 1−2 21−24
QHD / 1440p 0−1 16−18
4K / 2160p 10−11
low / 720p 12−14 60−65
medium / 1080p 4−5 40−45
The average gaming FPS of Radeon HD 7970 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 720% more, than NVS 810.

Full Specs

  NVS 810 Radeon HD 7970
Architecture Maxwell GCN
Code name GM107 Tahiti XT
Type Workstation Desktop
Release date 4 November 2015 22 December 2011
Pipelines 512 2048
Core clock speed 902 MHz
Boost Clock 1033 MHz 925 MHz
Transistor count 1,870 million 4,313 million
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Texture fill rate 33.06 118.4
Floating-point performance 2x 1,058 gflops 3,789 gflops
Length 198 mm 274 mm
Memory bus width 64 Bit 384 Bit
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz 1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth 14.4 GB/s 264 GB/s
Shared memory -
DirectX 12 (11_0)
Shader Model 5.1 5.1
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 1.2
Vulkan 1.1.126
CUDA 5.0
FreeSync +
Bus support PCIe 2.1 x16
HDMI +
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