AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs NVIDIA RTX A5500 Max-Q
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2012
Mar 2022
Generation
Southern Islands
Ampere-MW
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1750 MHz
Base Clock
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585 MHz
Boost Clock
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1260 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
16GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
384bit
256bit
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s
448.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
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Shading Units
2048
7424
TMUs
128
232
ROPs
32
96
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
4 MB
SM Count
—
58
Tensor Cores
—
232
RT Cores
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58
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
121.0 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
292.3 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
18.71 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
947.2 GFLOPS
292.3 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
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18.71 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
GA103
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT(215-0821060)
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Architecture
GCN 1.0
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
28 nm
8 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
22 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
496 mm²
Board Design
TDP
250W
80W
Suggested PSU
600 W
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Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Portable Device Dependent
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
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)
6.8
CUDA
—
8.6
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
2,310
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
1,209
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▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.