NVIDIA RTX A2000 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970M
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Aug 2021
Apr 2012
Generation
Quadro Ampere
London
Type
Professional
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
562 MHz
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Boost Clock
1200 MHz
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Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
6GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192bit
256bit
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
153.6GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
26
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Shading Units
3328
1280
TMUs
104
80
ROPs
48
32
Tensor Cores
104
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RT Cores
26
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L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
3 MB
512 KB
Compute Units
—
20
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
57.60 GPixel/s
27.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
124.8 GTexel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
7.987 TFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
7.987 TFLOPS
2.176 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
124.8 GFLOPS
136.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA106
Wimbledon
GPU Variant
GA106-850-A1
Wimbledon XT(216-0836036)
Architecture
Ampere
GCN 1.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
12 billion
2.8 billion
Die Size
276 mm²
212 mm²
Board Design
TDP
70W
100W
Suggested PSU
250 W
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Outputs
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
Power Connectors
None
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
6.7
5.1
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.