NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5070 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 5070 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (532.6GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

4352 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (220W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5070 +751%

32.26 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5070

VS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Aug 2012

GeForce 50

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

-

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

532.6GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

50

SM Count

-

6400

Shading Units

2048

200

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

32

200

Tensor Cores

-

50

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

40 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

161.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

504.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

32.26 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

32.26 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

504.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

220W

TDP

500W

550 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.1a

Outputs

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

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GB205

GPU Name

New Zealand

GB205

GPU Variant

-

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

4.313 billion

Unknown

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

10.1

CUDA

-

6.8

Shader Model

5.1

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