Nvidia RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile vs Radeon HD 7970 X2

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated202
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data53.47
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameNew ZealandAD107
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Release date31 August 2012 (12 years ago)26 February 2024 (less than a 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 cores20482048
Core clock speed925 MHz1485 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2025 MHz
Number of transistors4,313 million18,900 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)500 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate118.4129.6
Floating-point processing power3.789 TFLOPS8.294 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs12864
Tensor Coresno data64
Ray Tracing Coresno data16

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 datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
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 GB4 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1375 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth264.0 GB/s128.0 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 Model5.16.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 31 August 2012 26 February 2024
Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 500 Watt 35 Watt

Nvidia RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile has an age advantage of 11 years, a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 460% more advanced lithography process, and 1328.6% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7970 X2 and RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 7970 X2 is a desktop card while RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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