AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2012
Mar 2025
Generation
Southern Islands
Blackwell PRO W
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1000 MHz
1590 MHz
Boost Clock
1050 MHz
2617 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
96GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR7
Memory Bus
384bit
512bit
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
1.79TB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
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Shading Units
2048
24064
TMUs
128
752
ROPs
32
192
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
128 MB
SM Count
—
188
Tensor Cores
—
752
RT Cores
—
188
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
33.60 GPixel/s
502.5 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
134.4 GTexel/s
1968.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.301 TFLOPS
126.0 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1075 GFLOPS
1.968 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
126.0 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
GB202
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT2(215-0821065)
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Architecture
GCN 1.0
Blackwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
5 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
92.2 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
750 mm²
Board Design
TDP
300W
600W
Suggested PSU
700 W
1000 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
4x DisplayPort 2.1b
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 16-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.4
Shader Model
5.1
6.9
CUDA
—
12.0
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
—
42,269
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
—
27,891
3DMark Speed Way
—
15,642
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.