AMD Radeon HD 7970
VS
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
AMD Radeon HD 7970
VS
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Radeon HD 7970 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

246
Place in performance rating
9
14.46
Value for money (0-100)
34.47
GCN
Architecture
Turing
Tahiti
Code name
TU102
Desktop
Type
Desktop
22 December 2011 (9 years ago)
Release date
27 August 2018 (3 years ago)
$549
Launch price (MSRP)
$999
$429 (0.8x MSRP)
Price now
$1265 (1.3x MSRP)
reference
Design
no data
5.80
Value for money
26.10
Tahiti XT
GPU code name
Turing TU102
Desktop
Market segment
Desktop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Radeon HD 7970 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

2048
Pipelines
4352
no data
Core clock speed
1350 MHz
925 MHz
Boost Clock
1545 MHz
4,313 million
Transistor count
18,600 million
28 nm
Manufacturing process technology
12 nm
300 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
118.4
Texture fill rate
420.2
3,789 gflops
Floating-point performance
no data
2048
Pipelines / CUDA cores
4352
925 MHz
Boost clock speed
1545 MHz
4,313 million
Number of transistors
18,600 million
300 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
250 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Radeon HD 7970 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti.

PCIe 3.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
274 mm
Length
267 mm
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Supplementary power connectors
2x 8-pin
PCIe 2.1 x16
Bus support
no data

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics AMD Radeon HD 7970 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti can be seen in this section.

GDDR5
Memory type
GDDR6
3 GB
Maximum RAM amount
11 GB
384 Bit
Memory bus width
352 Bit
1375 MHz
Memory clock speed
14000 MHz
264 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
616.0 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Radeon HD 7970 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, the size and number of monitors.

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
no data
G-SYNC support
+
+
Eyefinity
no data
+
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
no data

Technologies

The difference between AMD Radeon HD 7970 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti is the additional functionality.

no data
VR Ready
+
no data
Multi Monitor
+
no data
CUDA
7.5
-
AppAcceleration
no data
1
CrossFire
no data
1
FreeSync
no data
-
HD3D
no data
-
PowerTune
no data
-
TrueAudio
no data
-
ZeroCore
no data
-
Enduro
no data

API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Radeon HD 7970 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

DirectX® 11
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
no data
Vulkan
1.2.131
5.1
Shader Model
6.5
1.2
OpenCL
2.0
-
Mantle
no data

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Radeon HD 7970 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD Radeon HD 7970 or NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Radeon HD 7970
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 159 146 133 115 94 54
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Radeon HD 7970
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 174 173 170 169 133 78.8
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Radeon HD 7970
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 289 247 240 202 162 100
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Radeon HD 7970
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 321 243 166 126 101 64.7
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Radeon HD 7970
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 315 290 266 259 204 113
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of AMD Radeon HD 7970

Cheaper ($429 (0.8x MSRP) vs $1265 (1.3x MSRP))

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

75.7% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (4352 vs 2048)

Finer manufacturing process technology (12 nm vs 28 nm)

Less power consumption (250 Watt vs 300 Watt)

More maximum RAM amount (11 GB vs 3 GB)

More memory bandwidth (616.0 GB/s vs 264 GB/s)

G-SYNC support

VR Ready

Multi Monitor

So, AMD Radeon HD 7970 or NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti .

AMD Radeon HD 7970 versus NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti performance benchmarks comparison

Overall benchmark performance

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score AMD Radeon HD 7970
5.0 Out of 1 CpusData Score NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti