GPU Comparison

A

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

GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER

CORE STATE TU106

VRAM 8 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1650 MHz

TDP 175 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Turing

nm

PROCESS 12 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2019

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

34,541

87,670

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

2,011

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

83,503

passmark_directx_10

N/A

111

passmark_directx_11

N/A

130

passmark_directx_12

N/A

61

passmark_directx_9

N/A

218

passmark_g2d

N/A

854

passmark_g3d

N/A

16,462

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

6,721

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

HD 7970

RTX 2060 SUPER

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,048

2,176 +6.3%

Shaders

2,048

2,176 +6.3%

TMUs

128

136 +6.3%

ROPs

32

64 +100.0%

Compute Units

32

—

SM Count

—

34

Clocks

Base Clock

—

1470 MHz

Boost Clock

—

1650 MHz

GPU Clock

925 MHz

—

Memory Clock

1375 MHz 5.5 Gbps effective

1750 MHz 14 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

264.0 GB/s

448.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

768 KB

4 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

105.6 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

224.4 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

3.789 TFLOPS

7.181 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

947.2 GFLOPS (1:4)

224.4 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

14.36 TFLOPS (2:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

34

Tensor Cores

—

272

Power

TDP

250 W

175 W

TDP (W)

250

175 -30.0%

Suggested PSU

600 W

450 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

1x 8-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Turing

GPU Name

Tahiti

TU106

Generation

Southern Islands (HD 7900)

GeForce 20

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

Dual-slot

Length

275 mm 10.8 inches

229 mm 9 inches

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

113 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.02x DisplayPort 1.4a1x USB Type-C

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

549 USD

399 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Northern Islands

GeForce 10

Successor

Sea Islands

GeForce 30

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