AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4010

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4010

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4010 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4010 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 68% (1762MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition +58%

4.301 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4010

2.706 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

VS

GeForce RTX 4010

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Apr 2024

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1417 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

1762 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

6

2048

Shading Units

768

128

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

24

-

RT Cores

6

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.19 GPixel/s

134.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.29 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

2.706 TFLOPS

4.301 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.706 TFLOPS

1075 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

42.29 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

50W

700 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GA107

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

8.7 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

200 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

6.8

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