GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile vs Radeon HD 7970 X2

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated18
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data41.73
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameNew ZealandAD103
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date31 August 2012 (12 years ago)3 January 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$899 no data

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores20489728
Core clock speed925 MHz1335 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1695 MHz
Number of transistors4,313 million45,900 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)500 Watt120 Watt
Texture fill rate118.4515.3
Floating-point processing power3.789 TFLOPS32.98 TFLOPS
ROPs32112
TMUs128304
Tensor Coresno data304
Ray Tracing Coresno data76

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length292 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors3x 8-pinno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount3 GB16 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1375 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth264.0 GB/s576.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPortPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 31 August 2012 3 January 2023
Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 16 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 500 Watt 120 Watt

RTX 4090 Mobile has an age advantage of 10 years, a 433.3% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 600% more advanced lithography process, and 316.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7970 X2 and GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 7970 X2 is a desktop card while GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2
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