AMD Radeon HD 7970M vs NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Apr 2012
Apr 2021
Generation
London
Quadro Ampere
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
2000 MHz
Base Clock
—
1170 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1695 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
384bit
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
768.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
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Shading Units
1280
8192
TMUs
80
256
ROPs
32
96
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
6 MB
SM Count
—
64
Tensor Cores
—
256
RT Cores
—
64
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
162.7 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
433.9 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.176 TFLOPS
27.77 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
136.0 GFLOPS
433.9 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
27.77 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Wimbledon
GA102
GPU Variant
Wimbledon XT(216-0836036)
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Architecture
GCN 1.0
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
28 nm
8 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
28.3 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
628 mm²
Board Design
TDP
100W
230W
Outputs
No outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
None
1x 8-pin
Suggested PSU
—
550 W
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.