NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970M
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2020
Apr 2012
Generation
GeForce 30
London
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1500 MHz
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Boost Clock
1725 MHz
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Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
153.6GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
46
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Shading Units
5888
1280
TMUs
184
80
ROPs
96
32
Tensor Cores
184
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RT Cores
46
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L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
4 MB
512 KB
Compute Units
—
20
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
165.6 GPixel/s
27.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
317.4 GTexel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
20.31 TFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
20.31 TFLOPS
2.176 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
317.4 GFLOPS
136.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA104
Wimbledon
GPU Variant
GA104-300-A1
Wimbledon XT(216-0836036)
Architecture
Ampere
GCN 1.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
17.4 billion
2.8 billion
Die Size
392 mm²
212 mm²
Board Design
TDP
220W
100W
Suggested PSU
550 W
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Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
8.6
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Shader Model
6.6
5.1
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
13,641
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
6,762
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3DMark Speed Way
3,453
—
Battlefield 5 1080p
188
—
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
53
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Cyberpunk 2077 2160p
46
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
95
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Cyberpunk 2077 1440p
56
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
144
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Battlefield 5 2160p
81
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Cyberpunk 2077 1080p
82
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Battlefield 5 1440p
141
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GTA 5 2160p
68
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GTA 5 1440p
105
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GTA 5 1080p
159
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▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.