NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB GA102 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB GA102 AMD Radeon HD 7970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB GA102 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB GA102 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1770MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

4096 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7970 's Advantages

Lower TDP (250W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB GA102 +474%

21.75 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB GA102

VS

Radeon HD 7970

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Dec 2011

GeForce 30

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1575 MHz

Base Clock

-

1770 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

608.3GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

48

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

6144

Shading Units

2048

192

TMUs

128

96

ROPs

32

192

Tensor Cores

-

48

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

169.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

339.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

21.75 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

21.75 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

339.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Tahiti

GA102-150-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

290W

TDP

250W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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