NVIDIA RTX A5000 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon HD 7970M

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NVIDIA RTX A5000 Max-Q AMD Radeon HD 7970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM RTX A5000 Max Q and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX A5000 Max-Q 's Advantages

Released 9 years late

Boost Clock1350MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

4864 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (80W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX A5000 Max Q +662%

16.59 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970M

2.176 TFLOPS

RTX A5000 Max Q

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Radeon HD 7970M

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Apr 2012

Quadro Ampere-M

Generation

London

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

720 MHz

Base Clock

-

1350 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

384.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

48

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

6144

Shading Units

1280

192

TMUs

80

96

ROPs

32

192

Tensor Cores

-

48

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

129.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

259.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

16.59 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

16.59 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.176 TFLOPS

259.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Wimbledon

-

GPU Variant

Wimbledon XT (216-0836036)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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