Product Compare

NVIDIA RTX A4000 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Apr 2021 Jun 2012
Generation Quadro Ampere Southern Islands
Type Professional Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 735 MHz 1000 MHz
Boost Clock 1560 MHz 1050 MHz
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 1500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 16GB 3GB
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 384bit
Bandwidth 448.0GB/s 288.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count 48
Shading Units 6144 2048
TMUs 192 128
ROPs 96 32
Tensor Cores 192
RT Cores 48
L1 Cache 128 KB (per SM) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 4 MB 768 KB
Compute Units 32
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 149.8 GPixel/s 33.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 299.5 GTexel/s 134.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 19.17 TFLOPS
FP32 (float) 19.17 TFLOPS 4.301 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 299.5 GFLOPS 1075 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name GA104 Tahiti
GPU Variant GA104-875-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 140W 300W
Suggested PSU 300 W 700 W
Outputs 4x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors 1x 6-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 6.7 5.1