NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 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 4080 12 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock2610MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

5632 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (285W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB +958%

40.09 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB

VS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Aug 2012

GeForce 40

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2310 MHz

Base Clock

-

2610 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

504.2GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

60

SM Count

-

7680

Shading Units

2048

240

TMUs

128

80

ROPs

32

240

Tensor Cores

-

60

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

208.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

626.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

40.09 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

40.09 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

626.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

285W

TDP

500W

600 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

New Zealand

AD104-400-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

28 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

295 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

8.9

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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