AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs NVIDIA CMP 70HX

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

NVIDIA CMP 70HX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM 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 late

Boost Clock1395MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

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

1792 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

3.789 TFLOPS

CMP 70HX +182%

10.71 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

VS

CMP 70HX

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Jan 2021

Sea 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

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

30

2048

Shading Units

3840

128

TMUs

120

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

120

-

RT Cores

30

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

89.28 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

167.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.71 TFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.71 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

167.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

Unknown

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GA104

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

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

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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