AMD Radeon HD 7970M vs NVIDIA RTX 2000 Max-Q Ada Generation

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AMD Radeon HD 7970M NVIDIA RTX 2000 Max-Q Ada Generation

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970M and 8GB VRAM RTX 2000 Max Q Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX 2000 Max-Q Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1455MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (35W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970M

2.176 TFLOPS

RTX 2000 Max Q Ada Generation +310%

8.94 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970M

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RTX 2000 Max Q Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Apr 2012

Release Date

Mar 2023

London

Generation

Quadro Ada-M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

930 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1455 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

24

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

3072

80

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

96

-

RT Cores

24

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

12 MB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

69.84 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

139.7 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

8.940 TFLOPS

2.176 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.940 TFLOPS

136.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

139.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Wimbledon

GPU Name

AD107

Wimbledon XT (216-0836036)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

18.9 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

159 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

35W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

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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