NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2070 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1620MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2070 +97%

7.465 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2070

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Radeon HD 7970 X2

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Aug 2012

GeForce 20

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

-

1620 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

36

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

2304

Shading Units

2048

144

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

32

288

Tensor Cores

-

36

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

103.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

233.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

14.93 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.465 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

233.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

New Zealand

TU106-400A-A1

GPU Variant

-

Turing

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

10.8 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

445 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

500W

450 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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