AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2012
Oct 2018
Generation
Southern Islands
GeForce 20
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1750 MHz
Base Clock
-
1410 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1620 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
384bit
256bit
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s
448.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
-
Shading Units
2048
2304
TMUs
128
144
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
4 MB
SM Count
-
36
Tensor Cores
-
288
RT Cores
-
36
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
103.7 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
233.3 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
7.465 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
947.2 GFLOPS
233.3 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
14.93 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
TU106
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT(215-0821060)
TU106-400A-A1
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Turing
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
12 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
10.8 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
445 mm²
Board Design
TDP
250W
175W
Suggested PSU
600 W
450 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.02x DisplayPort 1.4a1x USB Type-C
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
3.0
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.3
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
6.8
CUDA
-
7.5
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
2,310
9,088
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
1,209
4,309