AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2012
Apr 2021
Generation
Southern Islands
Quadro Ampere
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1000 MHz
1170 MHz
Boost Clock
1050 MHz
1695 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
384bit
384bit
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
768.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
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Shading Units
2048
8192
TMUs
128
256
ROPs
32
96
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
6 MB
SM Count
—
64
Tensor Cores
—
256
RT Cores
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64
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
33.60 GPixel/s
162.7 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
134.4 GTexel/s
433.9 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.301 TFLOPS
27.77 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1075 GFLOPS
433.9 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
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27.77 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
GA102
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT2(215-0821065)
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Architecture
GCN 1.0
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
28 nm
8 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
28.3 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
628 mm²
Board Design
TDP
300W
230W
Suggested PSU
700 W
550 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.7
CUDA
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8.6
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.