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

Quadro RTX 4000

CORE STATE TU104

VRAM 8 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1545 MHz

TDP 160 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Turing

nm

PROCESS 12 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2018

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

34,541

85,166

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

1,873

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

78,844

passmark_directx_10

N/A

108

passmark_directx_11

N/A

128

passmark_directx_12

N/A

52

passmark_directx_9

N/A

205

passmark_g2d

N/A

846

passmark_g3d

N/A

15,117

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

6,176

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

HD 7970

Quadro RTX 4000

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

—

1005 MHz

Boost Clock

—

1545 MHz

GPU Clock

925 MHz

—

Memory Clock

1375 MHz 5.5 Gbps effective

1625 MHz 13 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

416.0 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

98.88 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

222.5 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

3.789 TFLOPS

7.119 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

947.2 GFLOPS (1:4)

222.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

14.24 TFLOPS (2:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

36

Tensor Cores

—

288

Power

TDP

250 W

160 W

TDP (W)

250

160 -36.0%

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

TU104

Generation

Southern Islands (HD 7900)

Quadro Turing (Tx000)

Process Size

28 nm

12 nm

Transistors

4,313 million

13,600 million

Die Size

352 mm²

545 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

12.3M / mm²

25.0M / 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

Single-slot

Length

275 mm 10.8 inches

241 mm 9.5 inches

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

3x DisplayPort 1.4a1x USB Type-C

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

549 USD

899 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Northern Islands

Quadro Volta

Successor

Sea Islands

Workstation Ampere

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