AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB 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

Lower TDP (300W vs 320W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 139% (2505MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (716.8GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

7680 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

4.301 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB +1033%

48.74 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

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GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Sep 2022

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

2205 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

2505 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

716.8GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

76

2048

Shading Units

9728

128

TMUs

304

32

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

304

-

RT Cores

76

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

64 MB

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Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

280.6 GPixel/s

134.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

761.5 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

48.74 TFLOPS

4.301 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

48.74 TFLOPS

1075 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

761.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

320W

700 W

Suggested PSU

700 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 16-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

AD103

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

AD103-300-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

4 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

45.9 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

379 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

6.6

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