AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000D Blackwell
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2012
Mar 2025
Generation
Southern Islands
Blackwell PRO W
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1750 MHz
Base Clock
—
1590 MHz
Boost Clock
—
2617 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
96GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR7
Memory Bus
384bit
512bit
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s
1.79TB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
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Shading Units
2048
24064
TMUs
128
752
ROPs
32
192
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
128 MB
SM Count
—
188
Tensor Cores
—
752
RT Cores
—
188
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
502.5 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
1968.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
126.0 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
947.2 GFLOPS
1.968 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
126.0 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
GB202
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT(215-0821060)
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Architecture
GCN 1.0
Blackwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
5 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
92.2 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
750 mm²
Board Design
TDP
250W
600W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1000 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
4x DisplayPort 2.1b
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 16-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
1.4
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
6.8
CUDA
—
12.0
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.