NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 12 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 12 GB AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 12 GB 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 2080 Ti 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1650MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (250W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 12 GB +301%

15.21 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 12 GB

VS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

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

-

1650 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

768.0GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

72

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

4608

Shading Units

2048

288

TMUs

128

96

ROPs

32

576

Tensor Cores

-

72

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

6 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

158.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

475.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

30.41 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

15.21 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

475.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU102

GPU Name

New Zealand

TU102-350-A1

GPU Variant

-

Turing

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

18.6 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

754 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

500W

600 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

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

2x 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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