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 5070 Ti

CORE STATE GB203

VRAM 16 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2452 MHz

TDP 300 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Blackwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 5 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2025

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

34,541

231,226

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

6,604

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

227,554

passmark_directx_10

N/A

192

passmark_directx_11

N/A

300

passmark_directx_12

N/A

127

passmark_directx_9

N/A

351

passmark_g2d

N/A

1,332

passmark_g3d

N/A

32,974

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

20,203

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

HD 7970

RTX 5070 Ti

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,048

8,960 +337.5%

Shaders

2,048

8,960 +337.5%

TMUs

128

280 +118.8%

ROPs

32

96 +200.0%

Compute Units

32

—

SM Count

—

70

Clocks

Base Clock

—

2295 MHz

Boost Clock

—

2452 MHz

GPU Clock

925 MHz

—

Memory Clock

1375 MHz 5.5 Gbps effective

1750 MHz 28 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

3 GB

16 GB

VRAM (MB)

3,072

16,384 +433.3%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR7

Memory Bus

384 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

264.0 GB/s

896.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

768 KB

48 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

235.4 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

686.6 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

3.789 TFLOPS

43.94 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

947.2 GFLOPS (1:4)

686.6 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

43.94 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

70

Tensor Cores

—

280

Power

TDP

250 W

300 W

TDP (W)

250

300 +20.0%

Suggested PSU

600 W

700 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

1x 16-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Blackwell 2.0

GPU Name

Tahiti

GB203

Generation

Southern Islands (HD 7900)

GeForce 50

Process Size

28 nm

5 nm

Transistors

4,313 million

45,600 million

Die Size

352 mm²

378 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

12.3M / mm²

120.6M / 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

749 USD

Production

End-of-life

Active

Predecessor

Northern Islands

GeForce 40

Successor

Sea Islands

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