NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 143% (2550MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (736.3GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

8192 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (300W vs 320W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER +1114%

52.22 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

4.301 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER

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Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2024

Release Date

Jun 2012

GeForce 40

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2295 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

2550 MHz

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

1438 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

736.3GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

80

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

10240

Shading Units

2048

320

TMUs

128

112

ROPs

32

320

Tensor Cores

-

80

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

285.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.60 GPixel/s

816.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

134.4 GTexel/s

52.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

52.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.301 TFLOPS

816.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1075 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD103

GPU Name

Tahiti

AD103-400-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

45.9 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

379 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

320W

TDP

300W

700 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 16-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

8.9

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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