NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 7970M
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Mar 2022
Apr 2012
Generation
Ampere-MW
London
Type
Professional
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
832 MHz
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Boost Clock
1537 MHz
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Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
64bit
256bit
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
153.6GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
16
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Shading Units
2048
1280
TMUs
64
80
ROPs
32
32
Tensor Cores
64
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RT Cores
16
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L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
512 KB
Compute Units
—
20
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
49.18 GPixel/s
27.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
98.37 GTexel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
6.296 TFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
6.296 TFLOPS
2.176 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
98.37 GFLOPS
136.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA107S
Wimbledon
Architecture
Ampere
GCN 1.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
8.7 billion
2.8 billion
Die Size
200 mm²
212 mm²
GPU Variant
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Wimbledon XT(216-0836036)
Board Design
TDP
30W
100W
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
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
6.8
5.1
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.