Product Compare
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Sep 2020 | Jun 2012 |
| Generation | GeForce 30 | Southern Islands |
| Type | Desktop | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Base Clock | 1500 MHz | 1000 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1725 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 | 46 | |
| Shading Units | 5888 | 2048 |
| TMUs | 184 | 128 |
| ROPs | 96 | 32 |
| Tensor Cores | 184 | |
| RT Cores | 46 | |
| L1 Cache | 128 KB (per SM) | 16 KB (per CU) |
| L2 Cache | 4 MB | 768 KB |
| Compute Units | 32 | |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 165.6 GPixel/s | 33.60 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 317.4 GTexel/s | 134.4 GTexel/s |
| FP16 (half) | 20.31 TFLOPS | |
| FP32 (float) | 20.31 TFLOPS | 4.301 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 317.4 GFLOPS | 1075 GFLOPS |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | GA104 | Tahiti |
| GPU Variant | GA104-300-A1 | Tahiti XT2(215-0821065) |
| Architecture | Ampere | GCN 1.0 |
| Foundry | Samsung | TSMC |
| Process Size | 8 nm | 28 nm |
| Transistors | 17.4 billion | 4.313 billion |
| Die Size | 392 mm² | 352 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 220W | 300W |
| Suggested PSU | 550 W | 700 W |
| Outputs | 1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a | 1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 |
| Power Connectors | 1x 12-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 | 8.6 | |
| Shader Model | 6.6 | 5.1 |