Product Compare
AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs NVIDIA Rubin GPU
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Jan 2012 | Jan 2026 |
| Generation | Southern Islands | Server Rubin |
| Type | Desktop | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 6.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Memory Clock | 1375 MHz | 2695 MHz |
| Base Clock | 700 MHz | |
| Boost Clock | 2267 MHz | |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 3GB | 288GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | HBM4 |
| Memory Bus | 384bit | 16384bit |
| Bandwidth | 264.0GB/s | 22.1TB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Compute Units | 32 | |
| Shading Units | 2048 | 28672 |
| TMUs | 128 | 896 |
| ROPs | 32 | 24 |
| L1 Cache | 16 KB (per CU) | 256 KB (per SM) |
| L2 Cache | 768 KB | 128 MB |
| SM Count | 224 | |
| Tensor Cores | 896 | |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 29.60 GPixel/s | 54.41 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 118.4 GTexel/s | 2031.2 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 3.789 TFLOPS | 130.0 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 947.2 GFLOPS | 32.50 TFLOPS |
| FP16 (half) | 260.0 TFLOPS | |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | Tahiti | GR100 |
| GPU Variant | Tahiti XT(215-0821060) | |
| Architecture | GCN 1.0 | Rubin |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
| Process Size | 28 nm | 3 nm |
| Transistors | 4.313 billion | 336 billion |
| Die Size | 352 mm² | 1456 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 250W | 2300W |
| Suggested PSU | 600 W | 2700 W |
| Outputs | 1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 | No outputs |
| Power Connectors | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin | |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 12 (11_1) | N/A |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | N/A |
| OpenCL | 2.1 (1.2) | 3.0 |
| Vulkan | 1.2.170 | N/A |
| Shader Model | 6.5 (5.1) | N/A |
| CUDA | 10.7 | |