AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs NVIDIA CMP 90HX

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 and 10GB VRAM CMP 90HX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970 's Advantages

Lower TDP (250W vs 320W)

NVIDIA CMP 90HX 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1710MHz

More VRAM (10GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

4352 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970

3.789 TFLOPS

CMP 90HX +477%

21.89 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970

VS

CMP 90HX

Graphics Card

Dec 2011

Release Date

Jul 2021

Southern Islands

Generation

Mining GPUs

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1500 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

10GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

384bit

Memory Bus

320bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

760.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

50

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

6400

128

TMUs

200

32

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

200

-

RT Cores

50

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

5 MB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

136.8 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

342.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

21.89 TFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

21.89 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

342.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GA102

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

GA102-100-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

320W

600 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

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

-

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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