NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 96GB VRAM RTX PRO 6000 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 's Advantages
Released 12 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 129% (2407MHz vs 1050MHz)
More VRAM (96GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.79TB/s vs 288.0GB/s)
22016 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (300W vs 600W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX PRO 6000
+2592%
115.8 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
4.301 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2025
Release Date
Jun 2012
Blackwell PRO
Generation
Southern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 5.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2017 MHz
Base Clock
1000 MHz
2407 MHz
Boost Clock
1050 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
96GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR7
Memory Type
GDDR5
512bit
Memory Bus
384bit
1.79TB/s
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
32
188
SM Count
-
24064
Shading Units
2048
752
TMUs
128
176
ROPs
32
752
Tensor Cores
-
188
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 MB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
423.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
33.60 GPixel/s
1810 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
134.4 GTexel/s
115.8 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
115.8 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.301 TFLOPS
1.810 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1075 GFLOPS
Board Design
600W
TDP
300W
1000 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
4x DisplayPort 2.1b
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GB202
GPU Name
Tahiti
-
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT2
(215-0821065)
Blackwell 2.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
28 nm
92.2 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
750 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.4
Vulkan
1.2
10.1
CUDA
-
6.8
Shader Model
5.1
