GPU Comparison

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AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon HD 7970M

CORE STATE Wimbledon

VRAM 2 GB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 100 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE GCN 1.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2012

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

RTX A5000

CORE STATE GA102

VRAM 24 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1695 MHz

TDP 230 W

BUS WIDTH 384 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ampere

nm

PROCESS 8 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2021

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

17,019

157,905

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

3,783

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

137,828

passmark_directx_10

N/A

153

passmark_directx_11

N/A

187

passmark_directx_12

N/A

87

passmark_directx_9

N/A

251

passmark_g2d

N/A

1,032

passmark_g3d

N/A

22,541

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

12,455

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

HD 7970M

RTX A5000

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,280

8,192 +540.0%

Shaders

1,280

8,192 +540.0%

TMUs

80

256 +220.0%

ROPs

32

96 +200.0%

Compute Units

20

—

SM Count

—

64

Clocks

Base Clock

—

1170 MHz

Boost Clock

—

1695 MHz

GPU Clock

850 MHz

—

Memory Clock

1200 MHz 4.8 Gbps effective

2000 MHz 16 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

2 GB

24 GB

VRAM (MB)

2,048

24,576 +1100.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

256 bit

384 bit

Bandwidth

153.6 GB/s

768.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

512 KB

6 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

162.7 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

433.9 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.176 TFLOPS

27.77 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

136.0 GFLOPS (1:16)

433.9 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

27.77 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

64

Tensor Cores

—

256

Power

TDP

100 W

230 W

TDP (W)

100

230 +130.0%

Suggested PSU

—

550 W

Power Connectors

None

1x 8-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Ampere

GPU Name

Wimbledon

GA102

Generation

London (HD 7900M)

Workstation Ampere (Ax000)

Process Size

28 nm

8 nm

Transistors

2,800 million

28,300 million

Die Size

212 mm²

628 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

Samsung

Density

13.2M / 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

MXM Module

Dual-slot

Length

—

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

—

112 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

PCIe 4.0 x16

Other

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Vancouver

Quadro Turing

Successor

Solar System

Workstation Ada

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