NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Aug 2023
Aug 2012
Generation
Workstation Ada
Southern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1500 MHz
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Boost Clock
2175 MHz
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Memory Clock
2250 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
20GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
160bit
384bit
Bandwidth
360.0GB/s
264.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
48
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Shading Units
6144
2048
TMUs
192
128
ROPs
64
32
Tensor Cores
192
—
RT Cores
48
—
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
48 MB
768 KB
Compute Units
—
32
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
139.2 GPixel/s
29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
417.6 GTexel/s
118.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
26.73 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
26.73 TFLOPS
3.789 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
417.6 GFLOPS
947.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
AD104
New Zealand
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
5 nm
28 nm
Transistors
35.8 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
294 mm²
352 mm²
Board Design
TDP
130W
500W
Suggested PSU
300 W
900 W
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
3x 8-pin
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
8.9
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Shader Model
6.8
5.1
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.