NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5080 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 140% (2520MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (973.8GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

8704 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (300W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5080 +1159%

54.19 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

4.301 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5080

VS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Jun 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

1000 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

2400 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

973.8GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

84

SM Count

-

10752

Shading Units

2048

336

TMUs

128

ROPs

32

336

Tensor Cores

-

84

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

322.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.60 GPixel/s

846.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

134.4 GTexel/s

54.19 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

54.19 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.301 TFLOPS

846.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1075 GFLOPS

Board Design

350W

TDP

300W

750 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.1a

Outputs

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

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GB203

GPU Name

Tahiti

GB203-400-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

0

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

4.313 billion

377 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

10.1

CUDA

-

6.8

Shader Model

5.1

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