NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

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NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM RTX 2000 Ada Generation and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock2130MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (70W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX 2000 Ada Generation +216%

12 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

3.789 TFLOPS

RTX 2000 Ada Generation

VS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

Graphics Card

Feb 2024

Release Date

Jan 2013

Quadro Ada

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1620 MHz

Base Clock

-

2130 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

22

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

2816

Shading Units

2048

88

TMUs

128

48

ROPs

32

88

Tensor Cores

-

22

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

12 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

102.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

187.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

12.00 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.00 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

187.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD107

GPU Name

Tahiti

-

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

18.9 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

159 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

70W

TDP

250W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

None

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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