AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1620MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

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

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 X2

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2070 +97%

7.465 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

VS

GeForce RTX 2070

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Oct 2018

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1410 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1620 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

36

2048

Shading Units

2304

128

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

288

-

RT Cores

36

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

103.7 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

233.3 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

14.93 TFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.465 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

233.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

500W

TDP

175W

900 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

New Zealand

GPU Name

TU106

-

GPU Variant

TU106-400A-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

445 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

7.5

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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