NVIDIA RTX A2000 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Apr 2021
Aug 2012
Generation
Ampere-MW
Southern Islands
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
682 MHz
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Boost Clock
1207 MHz
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Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
384bit
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
264.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
20
—
Shading Units
2560
2048
TMUs
80
128
ROPs
48
32
Tensor Cores
80
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RT Cores
20
—
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
768 KB
Compute Units
—
32
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
57.94 GPixel/s
29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
96.56 GTexel/s
118.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
6.180 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
6.180 TFLOPS
3.789 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
96.56 GFLOPS
947.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA107
New Zealand
Architecture
Ampere
GCN 1.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
8.7 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
200 mm²
352 mm²
Board Design
TDP
95W
500W
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
None
3x 8-pin
Suggested PSU
—
900 W
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
6.8
5.1
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.