AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs AMD Radeon Pro W6800X Duo

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition AMD Radeon Pro W6800X Duo

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and 32GB VRAM Radeon Pro W6800X Duo 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 400W)

AMD Radeon Pro W6800X Duo 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 87% (1967MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (32GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

4.301 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro W6800X Duo +251%

15.11 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

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Radeon Pro W6800X Duo

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Aug 2021

Southern Islands

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

Apple MPX

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1800 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

1967 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

60

2048

Shading Units

3840

128

TMUs

240

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

60

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

768 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

188.8 GPixel/s

134.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

472.1 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

30.21 TFLOPS

4.301 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

15.11 TFLOPS

1075 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

944.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Navi 21

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

Navi 21 Pro-XLA

GCN 1.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

26.8 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

400W

700 W

Suggested PSU

800 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 4x Thunderbolt

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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