AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 6144 SP

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 6144 SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 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

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

Lower TDP (290W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 X2

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 6144 SP +474%

21.75 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

VS

GeForce RTX 3070 6144 SP

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

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

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FP16 (half)

21.75 TFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

21.75 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

339.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

500W

TDP

290W

900 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

New Zealand

GPU Name

GA104

-

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

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