AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA CMP 30HX
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2012
Feb 2021
Generation
Southern Islands
Mining GPUs
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x4
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1000 MHz
1530 MHz
Boost Clock
1050 MHz
1785 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
6GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
384bit
192bit
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
336.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
-
Shading Units
2048
1408
TMUs
128
88
ROPs
32
48
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
1536 KB
SM Count
-
22
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
33.60 GPixel/s
85.68 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
134.4 GTexel/s
157.1 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.301 TFLOPS
5.027 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1075 GFLOPS
157.1 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
10.05 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
TU116
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT2(215-0821065)
TU116-100-A1
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Turing
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
12 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
6.6 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
284 mm²
Board Design
TDP
300W
125W
Suggested PSU
700 W
300 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.8
CUDA
-
7.5