Product Compare

AMD Radeon HD 7970M vs NVIDIA RTX A6000

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Apr 2012 Oct 2020
Generation London Quadro Ampere
Type Mobile Professional
Bus Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 1200 MHz 2000 MHz
Base Clock 1410 MHz
Boost Clock 1800 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 2GB 48GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR6
Memory Bus 256bit 384bit
Bandwidth 153.6GB/s 768.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 20
Shading Units 1280 10752
TMUs 80 336
ROPs 32 112
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache 512 KB 6 MB
SM Count 84
Tensor Cores 336
RT Cores 84
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 27.20 GPixel/s 201.6 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 68.00 GTexel/s 604.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 2.176 TFLOPS 38.71 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 136.0 GFLOPS 604.8 GFLOPS
FP16 (half) 38.71 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Wimbledon GA102
GPU Variant Wimbledon XT(216-0836036)
Architecture GCN 1.0 Ampere
Foundry TSMC Samsung
Process Size 28 nm 8 nm
Transistors 2.8 billion 28.3 billion
Die Size 212 mm² 628 mm²
Board Design
TDP 100W 300W
Outputs No outputs 4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors None 8-pin EPS
Suggested PSU 700 W
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 6.7
CUDA 8.6