NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER vs AMD Radeon HD 7970
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jul 2019
Jan 2012
Generation
GeForce 20
Southern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1605 MHz
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Boost Clock
1770 MHz
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Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
384bit
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
264.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
40
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Shading Units
2560
2048
TMUs
160
128
ROPs
64
32
Tensor Cores
320
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RT Cores
40
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L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
4 MB
768 KB
Compute Units
—
32
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
113.3 GPixel/s
29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
283.2 GTexel/s
118.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
18.12 TFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
9.062 TFLOPS
3.789 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
283.2 GFLOPS
947.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
TU104
Tahiti
GPU Variant
TU104-410-A1
Tahiti XT(215-0821060)
Architecture
Turing
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
12 nm
28 nm
Transistors
13.6 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
545 mm²
352 mm²
Board Design
TDP
215W
250W
Suggested PSU
550 W
600 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a1x USB Type-C
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.1 (1.2)
Vulkan
1.3
1.2.170
CUDA
7.5
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Shader Model
6.8
6.5 (5.1)
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
10,169
2,310
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
4,764
1,209
3DMark Speed Way
2,070
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Battlefield 5 1080p
133
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
42
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Cyberpunk 2077 2160p
36
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
80
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Cyberpunk 2077 1440p
43
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
118
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Battlefield 5 2160p
56
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Cyberpunk 2077 1080p
63
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Battlefield 5 1440p
101
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GTA 5 2160p
68
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GTA 5 1440p
96
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GTA 5 1080p
180
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▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.