AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 vs NVIDIA CMP 70HX

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 and 8GB VRAM CMP 70HX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA CMP 70HX 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1395MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

4096 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 X2

3.789 TFLOPS

CMP 70HX +352%

17.14 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

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CMP 70HX

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Jan 2021

Southern Islands

Generation

Mining GPUs

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1365 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1395 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

608.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

48

32

Compute Units

-

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

133.9 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

267.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

17.14 TFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

17.14 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

267.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

New Zealand

GPU Name

GA104

-

GPU Variant

GA104-100-A1

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

Board Design

500W

TDP

Unknown

900 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-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

6.7

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