NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Nov 2018
Jan 2013
Generation
Quadro Turing
Sea Islands
Type
Professional
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1005 MHz
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Boost Clock
1545 MHz
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Memory Clock
1625 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
384bit
Bandwidth
416.0GB/s
264.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
36
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Shading Units
2304
2048
TMUs
144
128
ROPs
64
32
Tensor Cores
288
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RT Cores
36
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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
98.88 GPixel/s
29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
222.5 GTexel/s
118.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
14.24 TFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
7.119 TFLOPS
3.789 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
222.5 GFLOPS
947.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
TU104
Tahiti
GPU Variant
TU104-850-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
160W
250W
Suggested PSU
450 W
600 W
Outputs
3x DisplayPort 1.4a1x USB Type-C
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
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
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
7.5
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Shader Model
6.8
5.1
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
7,853
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
3,696
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.