AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (250W vs 320W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER 's Advantages

Released 11 years late

Boost Clock2550MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (736.3GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

8192 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER +1278%

52.22 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

VS

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Jan 2024

Sea Islands

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2295 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2550 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1438 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

736.3GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

80

2048

Shading Units

10240

128

TMUs

320

32

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

320

-

RT Cores

80

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

64 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

285.6 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

816.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

52.22 TFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

52.22 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

816.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

320W

600 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

AD103

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

AD103-400-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

45.9 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

379 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

8.9

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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