Product Compare
AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Jan 2013 | Jan 2025 |
| Generation | Sea Islands | GeForce 50 |
| Type | Desktop | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 5.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Memory Clock | 1375 MHz | 1875 MHz |
| Base Clock | 2295 MHz | |
| Boost Clock | 2617 MHz | |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 3GB | 16GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR7 |
| Memory Bus | 384bit | 256bit |
| Bandwidth | 264.0GB/s | 960.0GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Compute Units | 32 | |
| Shading Units | 2048 | 10752 |
| TMUs | 128 | 336 |
| ROPs | 32 | 112 |
| L1 Cache | 16 KB (per CU) | 128 KB (per SM) |
| L2 Cache | 768 KB | 64 MB |
| SM Count | 84 | |
| Tensor Cores | 336 | |
| RT Cores | 84 | |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 29.60 GPixel/s | 293.1 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 118.4 GTexel/s | 879.3 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 3.789 TFLOPS | 56.28 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 947.2 GFLOPS | 879.3 GFLOPS |
| FP16 (half) | 56.28 TFLOPS | |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | Tahiti | GB203 |
| GPU Variant | Tahiti XT(215-0821060) | GB203-400-A1 |
| Architecture | GCN 1.0 | Blackwell 2.0 |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
| Process Size | 28 nm | 5 nm |
| Transistors | 4.313 billion | 45.6 billion |
| Die Size | 352 mm² | 378 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 250W | 360W |
| Suggested PSU | 600 W | 750 W |
| Outputs | 1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 | 1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1b |
| Power Connectors | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin | 1x 16-pin |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 12 (11_1) | 12 Ultimate (12_2) |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | 3.0 |
| Vulkan | 1.2 | 1.4 |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | 6.8 |
| CUDA | 12.0 | |