AMD Radeon HD 7950 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

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AMD Radeon HD 7950 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7950 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 120.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (200W vs 220W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 's Advantages

Released 13 years late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)

4608 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950

2.867 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5070 +1025%

32.26 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950

VS

GeForce RTX 5070

Graphics Card

Jan 2012

Release Date

Jan 2025

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2235 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR7

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

120.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

50

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

6400

112

TMUs

200

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

200

-

RT Cores

50

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

40 MB

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

161.3 GPixel/s

89.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

504.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

32.26 TFLOPS

2.867 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

32.26 TFLOPS

716.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

504.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GB205

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

GB205

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

0 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

Unknown

352 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

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 16-pin

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

9.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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