AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2012
Sep 2020
Generation
Southern Islands
GeForce 30
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1750 MHz
Base Clock
—
1500 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1725 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
384bit
256bit
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s
448.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
—
Shading Units
2048
5888
TMUs
128
184
ROPs
32
96
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
4 MB
SM Count
—
46
Tensor Cores
—
184
RT Cores
—
46
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
165.6 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
317.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
20.31 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
947.2 GFLOPS
317.4 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
20.31 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
GA104
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT(215-0821060)
GA104-300-A1
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
28 nm
8 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
17.4 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
392 mm²
Board Design
TDP
250W
220W
Suggested PSU
600 W
550 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 12-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
3.0
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.3
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
6.6
CUDA
—
8.6
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
2,310
13,641
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
1,209
6,762
3DMark Speed Way
—
3,453
Battlefield 5 1080p
—
188
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
—
53
Cyberpunk 2077 2160p
—
46
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
—
95
Cyberpunk 2077 1440p
—
56
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
—
144
Battlefield 5 2160p
—
81
Cyberpunk 2077 1080p
—
82
Battlefield 5 1440p
—
141
GTA 5 2160p
—
68
GTA 5 1440p
—
105
GTA 5 1080p
—
159
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.