AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation

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AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM and 16GB VRAM RTX 2000 Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock2130MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (70W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

3.789 TFLOPS

RTX 2000 Ada Generation +216%

12 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

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RTX 2000 Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Feb 2024

Sea Islands

Generation

Quadro Ada

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1620 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2130 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

22

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

2816

128

TMUs

88

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

88

-

RT Cores

22

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

12 MB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

102.2 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

187.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

12.00 TFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.00 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

187.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

AD107

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

18.9 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

159 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

70W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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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