AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA RTX 5880 Ada Generation

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

NVIDIA RTX 5880 Ada Generation

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and 48GB VRAM RTX 5880 Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX 5880 Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 134% (2460MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (48GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (864.0GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

12032 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (285W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

4.301 TFLOPS

RTX 5880 Ada Generation +1510%

69.27 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

VS

RTX 5880 Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Jan 2024

Southern Islands

Generation

Quadro Ada

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

975 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

2460 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

48GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

864.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

110

2048

Shading Units

14080

128

TMUs

440

32

ROPs

176

-

Tensor Cores

440

-

RT Cores

110

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

72 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

433.0 GPixel/s

134.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1082 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

69.27 TFLOPS

4.301 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

69.27 TFLOPS

1075 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1082 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

285W

700 W

Suggested PSU

600 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

AD102

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

AD102

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

76.3 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

609 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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