GPU Comparison
RADEON
AMD Radeon HD 7970
CORE STATE
Tahiti
VRAM
3 GB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
250 W
BUS WIDTH
384 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 1.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2012
VS
GEFORCE
A10M
CORE STATE
GA102
VRAM
20 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1635 MHz
TDP
150 W
BUS WIDTH
320 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Ampere
PROCESS
8 nm
LAUNCH DATE
—
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
HD 7970
A10M
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,048
7,168
+250.0%
Shaders
2,048
7,168
+250.0%
TMUs
128
224
+75.0%
ROPs
32
80
+150.0%
Compute Units
32
—
SM Count
—
56
Clocks
Base Clock
—
975 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1635 MHz
GPU Clock
925 MHz
—
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
5.5 Gbps effective
1563 MHz
12.5 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
3 GB
20 GB
VRAM (MB)
3,072
20,480
+566.7%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
384 bit
320 bit
Bandwidth
264.0 GB/s
500.2 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
6 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
130.8 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
366.2 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
3.789 TFLOPS
23.44 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
947.2 GFLOPS (1:4)
732.5 GFLOPS (1:32)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
23.44 TFLOPS (1:1)
AI/RT
RT Cores
—
56
Tensor Cores
—
224
Power
TDP
250 W
150 W
TDP (W)
250
150
-40.0%
Suggested PSU
600 W
450 W
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
8-pin EPS
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Ampere
GPU Name
Tahiti
GA102
Generation
Southern Islands
(HD 7900)
Server Ampere
(Axx)
Process Size
28 nm
8 nm
Transistors
4,313 million
28,300 million
Die Size
352 mm²
628 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Density
12.3M / mm²
45.1M / 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
—
8.6
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
6.8
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Single-slot
Length
275 mm
10.8 inches
267 mm
10.5 inches
Height
111 mm
4.4 inches
112 mm
4.4 inches
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
549 USD
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Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Northern Islands
Tesla Turing
Successor
Sea Islands
Server Ada