NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Mar 2022
Jan 2013
Generation
Ampere-MW
Sea Islands
Type
Professional
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
832 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1537 MHz
-
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
64bit
384bit
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
264.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
16
-
Shading Units
2048
2048
TMUs
64
128
ROPs
32
32
Tensor Cores
64
-
RT Cores
16
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
768 KB
Compute Units
-
32
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
49.18 GPixel/s
29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
98.37 GTexel/s
118.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
6.296 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
6.296 TFLOPS
3.789 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
98.37 GFLOPS
947.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA107S
Tahiti
Architecture
Ampere
GCN 1.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
8.7 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
200 mm²
352 mm²
GPU Variant
-
Tahiti XT(215-0821060)
Board Design
TDP
30W
250W
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Suggested PSU
-
600 W
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
6.8
5.1