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 2080 Ti
CORE STATE
TU102
VRAM
11 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1545 MHz
TDP
250 W
BUS WIDTH
352 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Turing
PROCESS
12 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2018
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
passmark_directx_10
passmark_directx_11
passmark_directx_12
passmark_directx_9
passmark_g2d
passmark_g3d
passmark_gpu_compute
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
HD 7970 GHz Edition
RTX 2080 Ti
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,048
4,352
+112.5%
Shaders
2,048
4,352
+112.5%
TMUs
128
272
+112.5%
ROPs
32
88
+175.0%
Compute Units
32
—
SM Count
—
68
Clocks
Base Clock
1000 MHz
1350 MHz
Boost Clock
1050 MHz
1545 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
6 Gbps effective
1750 MHz
14 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
3 GB
11 GB
VRAM (MB)
3,072
11,264
+266.7%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
384 bit
352 bit
Bandwidth
288.0 GB/s
616.0 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
5.5 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
33.60 GPixel/s
136.0 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
134.4 GTexel/s
420.2 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
4.301 TFLOPS
13.45 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
1,075.2 GFLOPS (1:4)
420.2 GFLOPS (1:32)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
26.90 TFLOPS (2:1)
AI/RT
RT Cores
—
68
Tensor Cores
—
544
Power
TDP
300 W
250 W
TDP (W)
300
250
-16.7%
Suggested PSU
700 W
600 W
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
2x 8-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Turing
GPU Name
Tahiti
TU102
Generation
Southern Islands
(HD 7900)
GeForce 20
Process Size
28 nm
12 nm
Transistors
4,313 million
18,600 million
Die Size
352 mm²
754 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
12.3M / mm²
24.7M / 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
Dual-slot
Length
275 mm
10.8 inches
267 mm
10.5 inches
Height
111 mm
4.4 inches
116 mm
4.6 inches
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a1x USB Type-C
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
499 USD
999 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Northern Islands
GeForce 10
Successor
Sea Islands
GeForce 30