AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max Q
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2012
Apr 2020
Generation
Southern Islands
GeForce 20 Mobile
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1000 MHz
735 MHz
Boost Clock
1050 MHz
975 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
384bit
256bit
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
352.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
-
Shading Units
2048
3072
TMUs
128
192
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
4 MB
SM Count
-
48
Tensor Cores
-
384
RT Cores
-
48
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
33.60 GPixel/s
62.40 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
134.4 GTexel/s
187.2 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.301 TFLOPS
5.990 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1075 GFLOPS
187.2 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
11.98 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
TU104
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT2(215-0821065)
N18E-G3R
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Turing
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
12 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
13.6 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
545 mm²
Board Design
TDP
300W
80W
Suggested PSU
700 W
-
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.6
CUDA
-
7.5