AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 vs NVIDIA RTX A2000 12 GB
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Aug 2012
Nov 2021
Generation
Southern Islands
Quadro
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1500 MHz
Base Clock
-
562 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1200 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
384bit
192bit
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s
288.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
-
Shading Units
2048
3328
TMUs
128
104
ROPs
32
48
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
3 MB
SM Count
-
26
Tensor Cores
-
104
RT Cores
-
26
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
57.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
124.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
7.987 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
947.2 GFLOPS
124.8 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
7.987 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
New Zealand
GA106
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
28 nm
8 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
12 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
276 mm²
Board Design
TDP
500W
70W
Suggested PSU
900 W
250 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
3x 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
-
8.6
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
-
5,834
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
-
2,681
OctaneBench
-
227
Blender
-
1,885