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
RTX 5000 Ada Generation
CORE STATE
AD102
VRAM
32 GB
CLOCK SPEED
2550 MHz
TDP
250 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Ada Lovelace
PROCESS
5 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2023
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
HD 7970
RTX 5000 Ada Generation
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,048
12,800
+525.0%
Shaders
2,048
12,800
+525.0%
TMUs
128
400
+212.5%
ROPs
32
176
+450.0%
Compute Units
32
—
SM Count
—
100
Clocks
Base Clock
—
1155 MHz
Boost Clock
—
2550 MHz
GPU Clock
925 MHz
—
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
5.5 Gbps effective
2250 MHz
18 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
3 GB
32 GB
VRAM (MB)
3,072
32,768
+966.7%
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
72 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
448.8 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
1,020.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
3.789 TFLOPS
65.28 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
947.2 GFLOPS (1:4)
1,020.0 GFLOPS (1:64)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
65.28 TFLOPS (1:1)
AI/RT
RT Cores
—
100
Tensor Cores
—
400
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 16-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Ada Lovelace
GPU Name
Tahiti
AD102
Generation
Southern Islands
(HD 7900)
Workstation Ada
(x000A)
Process Size
28 nm
5 nm
Transistors
4,313 million
76,300 million
Die Size
352 mm²
609 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
12.3M / mm²
125.3M / 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
Dual-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
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
549 USD
—
Production
End-of-life
Active
Predecessor
Northern Islands
Workstation Ampere
Successor
Sea Islands
Blackwell PRO W