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Performance Comparison

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

783%
783%

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

16%
16%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 is approximately 767% faster

Technical Specifications

SpecificationNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Graphics ProcessorDifferent
GB205
Tahiti
CoresDifferent
6144
2048
TMUsDifferent
192
128
ROPsDifferent
80
32
Memory SizeDifferent
12 GB
3 GB
Memory TypeDifferent
GDDR7
GDDR5
Bus WidthDifferent
192 bit
384 bit

Graphics Processor

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
GPU NameDifferent
GB205
Tahiti
GPU VariantDifferent
GB205-300-A1
Tahiti XT2(215-0821065)
ArchitectureDifferent
Blackwell 2.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process TypeDifferent
4N FinFET
N/A
Process SizeDifferent
5 nm
28 nm
TransistorsDifferent
31,100 million
4,313 million
DensityDifferent
118.3M / mm²
12.3M / mm²
Die SizeDifferent
263 mm²
352 mm²

Graphics Card

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Release DateDifferent
Mar 4th, 2025
Jun 22nd, 2012
AnnouncedDifferent
Jan 6th, 2025
N/A
GenerationDifferent
GeForce 50
Southern Islands(HD 7900)
PredecessorDifferent
GeForce 40
Northern Islands
ProductionDifferent
Active
End-of-life
Launch PriceDifferent
549 USD
499 USD
Bus InterfaceDifferent
PCIe 5.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
ReviewsDifferent
44 in our database
191 in our database
SuccessorDifferent
N/A
Sea Islands

Clock Speeds

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Base ClockDifferent
2325 MHz
1000 MHz
Boost ClockDifferent
2512 MHz
1050 MHz
Memory ClockDifferent
1750 MHz28 Gbps effective
1500 MHz6 Gbps effective

Memory

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Memory SizeDifferent
12 GB
3 GB
Memory TypeDifferent
GDDR7
GDDR5
Memory BusDifferent
192 bit
384 bit
BandwidthDifferent
672.0 GB/s
288.0 GB/s

Render Config

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Shading UnitsDifferent
6144
2048
TMUsDifferent
192
128
ROPsDifferent
80
32
SM CountDifferent
48
N/A
Tensor CoresDifferent
192
N/A
RT CoresDifferent
48
N/A
L1 CacheDifferent
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 CacheDifferent
48 MB
768 KB
Compute UnitsDifferent
N/A
32

Theoretical Performance

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Pixel RateDifferent
201.0 GPixel/s
33.60 GPixel/s
Texture RateDifferent
482.3 GTexel/s
134.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)Different
30.87 TFLOPS (1:1)
N/A
FP32 (float)Different
30.87 TFLOPS
4.301 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)Different
482.3 GFLOPS (1:64)
1,075.2 GFLOPS (1:4)

Board Design

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Dual-slot
LengthDifferent
245 mm9.6 inches
275 mm10.8 inches
HeightDifferent
115 mm4.5 inches
111 mm4.4 inches
WidthDifferent
40 mm1.6 inches
38 mm1.5 inches
TDPDifferent
250 W
300 W
Suggested PSUDifferent
600 W
700 W
OutputsDifferent
1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1b
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power ConnectorsDifferent
1x 16-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Board NumberDifferent
PG147 SKU 70
109-C38637-00

Graphics Features

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
DirectXDifferent
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCLDifferent
3.0
2.1 (1.2)
VulkanDifferent
1.4
1.2.170
CUDADifferent
12.0
N/A
Shader ModelDifferent
6.8
6.5 (5.1)

Comparison Summary

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