AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 6144 SP

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7970

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 6144 SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 6144 SP 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 290W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 6144 SP 's Advantages

Boost Clock1770MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

4096 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 6144 SP +474%

21.75 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970

VS

GeForce RTX 3070 6144 SP

Graphics Card

Dec 2011

Release Date

Unknown

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1740 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1770 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

48

2048

Shading Units

6144

128

TMUs

192

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

192

-

RT Cores

48

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

169.9 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

339.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

21.75 TFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

21.75 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

339.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

290W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GA104

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

392 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

-

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.8

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX

2

AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition

3

AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs AMD Radeon RX 560DX

4

AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

5

AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs 3dfx Voodoo4-2 4200 AGP

6

AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

7

AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs NVIDIA GeForce G210 OEM

8

AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs NVIDIA NVS 510

9

AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs AMD Radeon HD 8350 OEM

10

AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

Related News

1

Strix Halo Integrated Graphics Score Appears on Passmark, Currently Slightly Below RTX 3060 12GB

2

AMD Unveils New RX 9070 XT Graphics Card Performance: Positioned Between RX 7900 GRE and RX 7900 XT

3

Double the Excitement! AMD FSR 4.0 to Launch Alongside RX 9070 XT Graphics Card

4

CPU-Z Minor Update: Support for Intel's Four New Products and New Memory

5

CXMT Reportedly Achieves 80% Yield in DDR5 Production

6

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N

7

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market

8

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

9

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

10

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers