AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and 20GB VRAM RTX 4000 Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 107% (2175MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (20GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

4096 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

4.301 TFLOPS

RTX 4000 Ada Generation +521%

26.73 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

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RTX 4000 Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Aug 2023

Southern Islands

Generation

Quadro Ada(x000A)

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1500 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

2175 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

20GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

160bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

48

2048

Shading Units

6144

128

TMUs

192

32

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

192

-

RT Cores

48

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

48 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

174.0 GPixel/s

134.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

417.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

26.73 TFLOPS

4.301 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

26.73 TFLOPS

1075 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

417.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

130W

700 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

AD104

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

35.8 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

294 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

6.8

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