AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM and 32GB VRAM RTX 5000 Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock2550MHz

More VRAM (32GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

10752 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

3.789 TFLOPS

RTX 5000 Ada Generation +1622%

65.28 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

VS

RTX 5000 Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Aug 2023

Sea Islands

Generation

Quadro Ada

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1155 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2550 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

576.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

100

2048

Shading Units

12800

128

TMUs

400

32

ROPs

176

-

Tensor Cores

400

-

RT Cores

100

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

72 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

448.8 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1020 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

65.28 TFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

65.28 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1020 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

250W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

AD102

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

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

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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