AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and 32GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5090 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 500W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 140% (2520MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (32GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.52TB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

19712 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

4.301 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5090 +2450%

109.7 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

VS

GeForce RTX 5090

Graphics Card

Jun 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

1000 MHz

Base Clock

2235 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR7

384bit

Memory Bus

512bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

1.52TB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

170

2048

Shading Units

21760

128

TMUs

680

32

ROPs

192

-

Tensor Cores

680

-

RT Cores

170

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

88 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

483.8 GPixel/s

134.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1714 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

109.7 TFLOPS

4.301 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

109.7 TFLOPS

1075 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1.714 TFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

500W

700 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.1a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GB202

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

GB202-400-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

4 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

Unknown

352 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

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

10.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.8

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