AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 6144 SP
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2012
Unknown
Generation
Southern Islands
GeForce 30
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1750 MHz
Base Clock
-
1740 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1770 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
6144
TMUs
128
192
ROPs
32
96
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
4 MB
SM Count
-
48
Tensor Cores
-
192
RT Cores
-
48
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
169.9 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
339.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
21.75 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
947.2 GFLOPS
339.8 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
21.75 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
GA104
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT(215-0821060)
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Architecture
GCN 1.0
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
28 nm
8 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
17.4 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
392 mm²
Board Design
TDP
250W
290W
Suggested PSU
600 W
600 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
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
-
8.6
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
2,310
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
1,209
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