NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 6144 SP vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 6144 SP

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 6144 SP 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 3070 6144 SP 's Advantages

Boost Clock1770MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

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

4096 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (290W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 6144 SP +474%

21.75 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 6144 SP

VS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Aug 2012

GeForce 30

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1740 MHz

Base Clock

-

1770 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

-

Compute Units

32

48

SM Count

-

6144

Shading Units

2048

192

TMUs

128

96

ROPs

32

192

Tensor Cores

-

48

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

169.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

339.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

21.75 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

21.75 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

339.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

290W

TDP

500W

600 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

New Zealand

-

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

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

8.6

CUDA

-

6.8

Shader Model

5.1

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