AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q Refresh

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Tahiti TU106B
GPU variant Tahiti XT (215-0821060)
Architecture GCN 1.0 Turing
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 28 nm 12 nm
Number of transistors 4,313 million 10,800 million
Die size 352 mm² 445 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Dec 22nd, 2011
Generation Southern Islands
Production End-of-life
Launch price 549 USD
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Reviews 191 in our database
gpu.details.availability Jan 9th, 2012
Predecessor Northern Islands
Successor Sea Islands

Clocks

GPU clock 925 MHz
Memory clock 1375 MHz 5.5 Gbps effective 1375 MHz 11 Gbps effective
Base clock 900 MHz
Boost clock 1125 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 3 GB 8 GB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR6
Memory bus width 384 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 264.0 GB/s 352.0 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 2048 2304
TMUs 128 144
ROPs 32 64
Compute units 32
Cache L1 16 KB (per CU) 64 KB (per SM)
Cache L2 768 KB 4 MB
SM count 36
Tensor cores 288
RT cores 36

Performance

Pixel rate 29.60 GPixel/s 72.00 GPixel/s
Texture rate 118.4 GTexel/s 162.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 3.789 TFLOPS 5.184 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 947.2 GFLOPS (1:4) 162.0 GFLOPS (1:32)
FP16 (half) performance 10.37 TFLOPS (2:1)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot MXM Module
Length 275 mm 10.8 inches
Width 111 mm 4.4 inches
Height 38 mm 1.5 inches
TDP 250 W 115 W
Suggested PSU 600 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI2x mini-DisplayPort No outputs
Power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin None
Board number C386-37 E4914 SKU 31

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (11_1) 12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 3.0
Vulkan 1.2 1.2
Shader model 5.1 6.6
CUDA 7.5

Other Features

Mobile graphics

Release date Mar 4th, 2020
Generation GeForce 20 Mobile
Production Active
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Predecessor GeForce 10 Mobile
Successor GeForce 30 Mobile

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