AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs NVIDIA L20

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7970

NVIDIA L20

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 and 48GB VRAM L20 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 275W)

NVIDIA L20 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (48GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (864.0GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

9728 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970

3.789 TFLOPS

L20 +1466%

59.35 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970

VS

L20

Graphics Card

Dec 2011

Release Date

Nov 2023

Southern Islands

Generation

Tesla Ada

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1440 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

48GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

864.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

92

2048

Shading Units

11776

128

TMUs

368

32

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

368

-

RT Cores

92

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

96 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

322.6 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

927.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

59.35 TFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

59.35 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

927.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

275W

600 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 XT (215-0821060)

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

-

CUDA

8.9

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs NVIDIA NVS 510

2

AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 645 OEM

3

AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs AMD Radeon Pro 5700

4

AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 OEM

5

AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition

6

AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs ATI Radeon HD 5490

7

AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs AMD Radeon R5 340X OEM

8

AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs ATI FirePro V3800

9

AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

10

AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs AMD Radeon R7 250X

Related News

1

NVIDIA GB202 Chip Unveiled for the First Time, to be Used in RTX 5090 with 512-bit GDDR7 Memory

2

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

3

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

4

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

5

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

6

CXMT Reportedly Achieves 80% Yield in DDR5 Production

7

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

8

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

9

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

10

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