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 GV100

CORE STATE GV100

VRAM 32 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1627 MHz

TDP 250 W

BUS WIDTH 4096 bit

ARCHITECTURE Volta

nm

PROCESS 12 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2018

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

34,541

144,393

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

137,547

passmark_directx_10

N/A

140

passmark_directx_11

N/A

168

passmark_directx_12

N/A

84

passmark_directx_9

N/A

207

passmark_g2d

N/A

836

passmark_g3d

N/A

19,650

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

9,069

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

HD 7970

Quadro GV100

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,048

5,120 +150.0%

Shaders

2,048

5,120 +150.0%

TMUs

128

320 +150.0%

ROPs

32

128 +300.0%

Compute Units

32

—

SM Count

—

80

Clocks

Base Clock

—

1132 MHz

Boost Clock

—

1627 MHz

GPU Clock

925 MHz

—

Memory Clock

1375 MHz 5.5 Gbps effective

848 MHz 1696 Mbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

3 GB

32 GB

VRAM (MB)

3,072

32,768 +966.7%

Memory Type

GDDR5

HBM2

Memory Bus

384 bit

4096 bit

Bandwidth

264.0 GB/s

868.4 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

208.3 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

520.6 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

3.789 TFLOPS

16.66 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

947.2 GFLOPS (1:4)

8.330 TFLOPS (1:2)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

33.32 TFLOPS (2:1)

AI/RT

Tensor Cores

—

640

Power

TDP

250 W

250 W

TDP (W)

250

250 0.0%

Suggested PSU

600 W

600 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

1x 8-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Volta

GPU Name

Tahiti

GV100

Generation

Southern Islands (HD 7900)

Quadro Volta (Vx000)

Process Size

28 nm

12 nm

Transistors

4,313 million

21,100 million

Die Size

352 mm²

815 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

12.3M / mm²

25.9M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.4

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

3.0

CUDA

—

7.0

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 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

549 USD

8,999 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Northern Islands

Quadro Pascal

Successor

Sea Islands

Quadro Turing

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