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

RTX 5000 Mobile Ada Generation

CORE STATE AD103

VRAM 16 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2115 MHz

TDP 120 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ada Lovelace

nm

PROCESS 5 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2023

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

34,541

N/A

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

3,596

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

HD 7970

RTX 5000 Mobile Ada Generation

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,048

9,728 +375.0%

Shaders

2,048

9,728 +375.0%

TMUs

128

304 +137.5%

ROPs

32

112 +250.0%

Compute Units

32

—

SM Count

—

76

Clocks

Base Clock

—

1425 MHz

Boost Clock

—

2115 MHz

GPU Clock

925 MHz

—

Memory Clock

1375 MHz 5.5 Gbps effective

2250 MHz 18 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

576.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

768 KB

64 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

236.9 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

643.0 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

3.789 TFLOPS

41.15 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

947.2 GFLOPS (1:4)

643.0 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

41.15 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

76

Tensor Cores

—

304

Power

TDP

250 W

120 W

TDP (W)

250

120 -52.0%

Suggested PSU

600 W

—

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

None

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Ada Lovelace

GPU Name

Tahiti

AD103

Generation

Southern Islands (HD 7900)

Ada-MW (x000A)

Process Size

28 nm

5 nm

Transistors

4,313 million

45,900 million

Die Size

352 mm²

379 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

12.3M / mm²

121.1M / 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

—

8.9

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

IGP

Length

275 mm 10.8 inches

—

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

—

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Portable Device Dependent

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

549 USD

—

Production

End-of-life

Active

Predecessor

Northern Islands

Ampere-MW

Successor

Sea Islands

Blackwell-MW

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