AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs Intel Arctic Sound M
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2012
Jan 2022
Generation
Southern Islands
Data Center GPU
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1000 MHz
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Boost Clock
1050 MHz
—
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
16GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM2e
Memory Bus
384bit
4096bit
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
1229GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
—
Shading Units
2048
8192
TMUs
128
256
ROPs
32
128
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
—
L2 Cache
768 KB
8 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
33.60 GPixel/s
115.2 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
134.4 GTexel/s
230.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.301 TFLOPS
14.75 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1075 GFLOPS
3.686 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
29.49 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
Arctic Sound
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT2(215-0821065)
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Architecture
GCN 1.0
Generation 12.5
Foundry
TSMC
Intel
Process Size
28 nm
10 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
8 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
190 mm²
Board Design
TDP
300W
500W
Suggested PSU
700 W
900 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
8-pin EPS
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
N/A
Shader Model
5.1
6.6
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.