AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA A10M
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2012
Feb 2022
Generation
Southern Islands
Server Ampere
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1000 MHz
975 MHz
Boost Clock
1050 MHz
1635 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1563 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
20GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
384bit
320bit
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
500.2GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
-
Shading Units
2048
7168
TMUs
128
224
ROPs
32
80
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
6 MB
SM Count
-
56
Tensor Cores
-
224
RT Cores
-
56
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
33.60 GPixel/s
130.8 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
134.4 GTexel/s
366.2 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.301 TFLOPS
23.44 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1075 GFLOPS
732.5 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
23.44 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
GA102
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT2(215-0821065)
-
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
28 nm
8 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
28.3 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
628 mm²
Board Design
TDP
300W
150W
Suggested PSU
700 W
450 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
8-pin EPS
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.8
CUDA
-
8.6