NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 72 GB Blackwell vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2025
May 2013
Generation
Blackwell PRO W
Solar System
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1740 MHz
850 MHz
Boost Clock
2377 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
72GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR7
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
256bit
Bandwidth
1.34TB/s
153.6GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
110
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Shading Units
14080
1280
TMUs
440
80
ROPs
160
32
Tensor Cores
440
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RT Cores
110
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L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
96 MB
512 KB
Compute Units
—
20
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
380.3 GPixel/s
28.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
1045.9 GTexel/s
72.00 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
66.94 TFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
66.94 TFLOPS
2.304 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1045.9 GFLOPS
144.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GB202
Neptune
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
5 nm
28 nm
Transistors
92.2 billion
2.8 billion
Die Size
750 mm²
212 mm²
GPU Variant
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Neptune XT(216-0847000)
Board Design
TDP
300W
100W
Suggested PSU
700 W
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Outputs
4x DisplayPort 2.1b
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
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Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.4
1.2
CUDA
12.0
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Shader Model
6.9
5.1
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.