AMD Radeon HD 7950 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 TiM

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7950

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 TiM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 TiM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7950 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 220W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 TiM 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1410MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

4096 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950

2.867 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 TiM +479%

16.6 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950

VS

GeForce RTX 3070 TiM

Graphics Card

Jan 2012

Release Date

Nov 2022

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

915 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1410 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

46

1792

Shading Units

5888

112

TMUs

184

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

184

-

RT Cores

46

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

135.4 GPixel/s

89.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

259.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

16.60 TFLOPS

2.867 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.60 TFLOPS

716.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

259.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

220W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GA104

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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