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

GeForce RTX 5090

CORE STATE GB202

VRAM 32 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2407 MHz

TDP 575 W

BUS WIDTH 512 bit

ARCHITECTURE Blackwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 5 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2025

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

34,541

380,114

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

14,411

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

379,571

passmark_directx_10

N/A

226

passmark_directx_11

N/A

341

passmark_directx_12

N/A

185

passmark_directx_9

N/A

395

passmark_g2d

N/A

1,413

passmark_g3d

N/A

39,650

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

26,756

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

HD 7970

RTX 5090

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,048

21,760 +962.5%

Shaders

2,048

21,760 +962.5%

TMUs

128

680 +431.3%

ROPs

32

176 +450.0%

Compute Units

32

—

SM Count

—

170

Clocks

Base Clock

—

2017 MHz

Boost Clock

—

2407 MHz

GPU Clock

925 MHz

—

Memory Clock

1375 MHz 5.5 Gbps effective

1750 MHz 28 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

3 GB

32 GB

VRAM (MB)

3,072

32,768 +966.7%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR7

Memory Bus

384 bit

512 bit

Bandwidth

264.0 GB/s

1.79 TB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

768 KB

96 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

423.6 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

1,636.8 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

3.789 TFLOPS

104.8 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

947.2 GFLOPS (1:4)

1.637 TFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

104.8 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

170

Tensor Cores

—

680

Power

TDP

250 W

575 W

TDP (W)

250

575 +130.0%

Suggested PSU

600 W

950 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

1x 16-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Blackwell 2.0

GPU Name

Tahiti

GB202

Generation

Southern Islands (HD 7900)

GeForce 50

Process Size

28 nm

5 nm

Transistors

4,313 million

92,200 million

Die Size

352 mm²

750 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

12.3M / mm²

122.9M / 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

—

12.0

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

275 mm 10.8 inches

304 mm 12 inches

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

137 mm 5.4 inches

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1b

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 5.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

549 USD

1,999 USD

Production

End-of-life

Active

Predecessor

Northern Islands

GeForce 40

Successor

Sea Islands

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