AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (300W vs 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 59% (1665MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

8192 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

4.301 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +692%

34.1 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

VS

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

May 2021

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1365 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

912.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

80

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

10240

128

TMUs

320

32

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

320

-

RT Cores

80

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

186.5 GPixel/s

134.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

532.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

34.10 TFLOPS

4.301 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

34.10 TFLOPS

1075 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

532.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GA102

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

GA102-225-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

350W

700 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

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CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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