AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 69% (1770MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

4096 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (290W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

4.301 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti +405%

21.75 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

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GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

May 2021

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1575 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

1770 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

608.3GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

48

2048

Shading Units

6144

128

TMUs

192

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

192

-

RT Cores

48

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

169.9 GPixel/s

134.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

339.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

21.75 TFLOPS

4.301 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

21.75 TFLOPS

1075 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

339.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

290W

700 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GA104

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

GA104-400-A1

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

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CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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