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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Oct 2018 Jun 2012
Generation GeForce 20 Southern Islands
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1410 MHz 1000 MHz
Boost Clock 1620 MHz 1050 MHz
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 1500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 8GB 3GB
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 384bit
Bandwidth 448.0GB/s 288.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count 36
Shading Units 2304 2048
TMUs 144 128
ROPs 64 32
Tensor Cores 288
RT Cores 36
L1 Cache 64 KB (per SM) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 4 MB 768 KB
Compute Units 32
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 103.7 GPixel/s 33.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 233.3 GTexel/s 134.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 14.93 TFLOPS
FP32 (float) 7.465 TFLOPS 4.301 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 233.3 GFLOPS 1075 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name TU106 Tahiti
GPU Variant TU106-400A-A1 Tahiti XT2(215-0821065)
Architecture Turing GCN 1.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 12 nm 28 nm
Transistors 10.8 billion 4.313 billion
Die Size 445 mm² 352 mm²
Board Design
TDP 175W 300W
Suggested PSU 450 W 700 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI 2.02x DisplayPort 1.4a1x USB Type-C 1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors 1x 8-pin 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 1.2
Vulkan 1.3 1.2
CUDA 7.5
Shader Model 6.8 5.1