GPU Comparison
RADEON
AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
CORE STATE
Tahiti
VRAM
3 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1050 MHz
TDP
300 W
BUS WIDTH
384 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 1.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2012
VS
GEFORCE
GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q
CORE STATE
TU106
VRAM
8 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1185 MHz
TDP
90 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Turing
PROCESS
12 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2019
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
HD 7970 GHz Edition
RTX 2070 Max-Q
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,048
2,304
+12.5%
Shaders
2,048
2,304
+12.5%
TMUs
128
144
+12.5%
ROPs
32
64
+100.0%
Compute Units
32
—
SM Count
—
36
Clocks
Base Clock
1000 MHz
885 MHz
Boost Clock
1050 MHz
1185 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
6 Gbps effective
1500 MHz
12 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
3 GB
8 GB
VRAM (MB)
3,072
8,192
+166.7%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
384 bit
256 bit
Bandwidth
288.0 GB/s
384.0 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
4 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
33.60 GPixel/s
75.84 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
134.4 GTexel/s
170.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
4.301 TFLOPS
5.460 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
1,075.2 GFLOPS (1:4)
170.6 GFLOPS (1:32)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
10.92 TFLOPS (2:1)
AI/RT
RT Cores
—
36
Tensor Cores
—
288
Power
TDP
300 W
90 W
TDP (W)
300
90
-70.0%
Suggested PSU
700 W
—
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Turing
GPU Name
Tahiti
TU106
Generation
Southern Islands
(HD 7900)
GeForce 20 Mobile
Process Size
28 nm
12 nm
Transistors
4,313 million
10,800 million
Die Size
352 mm²
445 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
12.3M / mm²
24.3M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.4
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
3.0
CUDA
—
7.5
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
6.8
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
MXM Module
Length
275 mm
10.8 inches
—
Height
111 mm
4.4 inches
—
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Portable Device Dependent
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
499 USD
—
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Northern Islands
GeForce 10 Mobile
Successor
Sea Islands
GeForce 30 Mobile