NVIDIA TITAN RTX vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

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NVIDIA TITAN RTX

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM TITAN RTX and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA TITAN RTX 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1770MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (672.0GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (250W vs 280W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

TITAN RTX +330%

16.31 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

3.789 TFLOPS

TITAN RTX

VS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

Graphics Card

Dec 2018

Release Date

Jan 2013

GeForce 20

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1350 MHz

Base Clock

-

1770 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

672.0GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

72

SM Count

-

4608

Shading Units

2048

288

TMUs

128

96

ROPs

32

576

Tensor Cores

-

72

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

6 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

169.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

509.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

32.62 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

16.31 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

509.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

280W

TDP

250W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

TU102

GPU Name

Tahiti

TU102-400-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

Turing

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

18.6 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

754 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

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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