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 5000

CORE STATE TU104

VRAM 16 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1815 MHz

TDP 230 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Turing

nm

PROCESS 12 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2018

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

34,541

103,361

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

93,951

passmark_directx_10

N/A

113

passmark_directx_11

N/A

140

passmark_directx_12

N/A

59

passmark_directx_9

N/A

195

passmark_g2d

N/A

709

passmark_g3d

N/A

15,616

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

6,525

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

HD 7970

Quadro RTX 5000

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,048

3,072 +50.0%

Shaders

2,048

3,072 +50.0%

TMUs

128

192 +50.0%

ROPs

32

64 +100.0%

Compute Units

32

—

SM Count

—

48

Clocks

Base Clock

—

1620 MHz

Boost Clock

—

1815 MHz

GPU Clock

925 MHz

—

Memory Clock

1375 MHz 5.5 Gbps effective

1750 MHz 14 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

3 GB

16 GB

VRAM (MB)

3,072

16,384 +433.3%

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

116.2 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

348.5 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

3.789 TFLOPS

11.15 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

947.2 GFLOPS (1:4)

348.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

22.30 TFLOPS (2:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

48

Tensor Cores

—

384

Power

TDP

250 W

230 W

TDP (W)

250

230 -8.0%

Suggested PSU

600 W

550 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

1x 6-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

Dual-slot

Length

275 mm 10.8 inches

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

4x DisplayPort 1.4a1x USB Type-C

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

549 USD

2,299 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Northern Islands

Quadro Volta

Successor

Sea Islands

Workstation Ampere

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