AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4050 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 216.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 151% (2640MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (100W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

4.301 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4050 +214%

13.52 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

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GeForce RTX 4050

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Unknown

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

2505 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

2640 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

96bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

216.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

18

2048

Shading Units

2560

128

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

120

-

RT Cores

18

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

32 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

84.48 GPixel/s

134.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

211.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

13.52 TFLOPS

4.301 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.52 TFLOPS

1075 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

211.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

100W

700 W

Suggested PSU

300 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

AD107

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

18.9 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

159 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

8.9

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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