GPU Comparison

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AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon HD 7970

CORE STATE Tahiti

VRAM 3 GB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 250 W

BUS WIDTH 384 bit

ARCHITECTURE GCN 1.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2012

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

A10G

CORE STATE GA102

VRAM 24 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1710 MHz

TDP 150 W

BUS WIDTH 384 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ampere

nm

PROCESS 8 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2021

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

34,541

158,063

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

145,863

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

HD 7970

A10G

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,048

9,216 +350.0%

Shaders

2,048

9,216 +350.0%

TMUs

128

288 +125.0%

ROPs

32

96 +200.0%

Compute Units

32

—

SM Count

—

72

Clocks

Base Clock

—

1320 MHz

Boost Clock

—

1710 MHz

GPU Clock

925 MHz

—

Memory Clock

1375 MHz 5.5 Gbps effective

1563 MHz 12.5 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

3 GB

24 GB

VRAM (MB)

3,072

24,576 +700.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

384 bit

384 bit

Bandwidth

264.0 GB/s

600.2 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

768 KB

6 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

164.2 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

492.5 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

3.789 TFLOPS

31.52 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

947.2 GFLOPS (1:4)

985.0 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

31.52 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

72

Tensor Cores

—

288

Power

TDP

250 W

150 W

TDP (W)

250

150 -40.0%

Suggested PSU

600 W

450 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

8-pin EPS

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Ampere

GPU Name

Tahiti

GA102

Generation

Southern Islands (HD 7900)

Server Ampere (Axx)

Process Size

28 nm

8 nm

Transistors

4,313 million

28,300 million

Die Size

352 mm²

628 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

Samsung

Density

12.3M / mm²

45.1M / 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

—

8.6

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Single-slot

Length

275 mm 10.8 inches

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

112 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

No outputs

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

549 USD

—

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Northern Islands

Tesla Turing

Successor

Sea Islands

Server Ada

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