AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 vs NVIDIA L20

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 NVIDIA L20

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 and 48GB VRAM L20 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA L20 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (48GB vs 3GB)

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

9728 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (275W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 X2

3.789 TFLOPS

L20 +1466%

59.35 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

VS

L20

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

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

-

SM Count

92

32

Compute Units

-

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

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FP16 (half)

59.35 TFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

59.35 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

927.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

New Zealand

GPU Name

AD102

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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

Board Design

500W

TDP

275W

900 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-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

8.9

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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