NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 Mobile Refresh vs AMD Radeon HD 7970
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2019
Jan 2012
Generation
Quadro Mobile
Southern Islands
Type
Professional
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
945 MHz
—
Boost Clock
1380 MHz
—
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
6GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192bit
384bit
Bandwidth
336.0GB/s
264.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
30
—
Shading Units
1920
2048
TMUs
120
128
ROPs
64
32
Tensor Cores
240
—
RT Cores
30
—
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
4 MB
768 KB
Compute Units
—
32
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
88.32 GPixel/s
29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
165.6 GTexel/s
118.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
10.60 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
5.299 TFLOPS
3.789 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
165.6 GFLOPS
947.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
TU106
Tahiti
GPU Variant
N19E-Q1-KD-A1
Tahiti XT(215-0821060)
Architecture
Turing
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
12 nm
28 nm
Transistors
10.8 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
445 mm²
352 mm²
Board Design
TDP
80W
250W
Outputs
No outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Suggested PSU
—
600 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.1 (1.2)
Vulkan
1.3
1.2.170
CUDA
7.5
—
Shader Model
6.6
6.5 (5.1)
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
—
2,310
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
—
1,209
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.