NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile and AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s).

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 3 month(s) later
37.6x more texture fill rate: 79.68 GTexel/s vs 2x 118.4 GTexel / s billion / sec
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 28 nm
16.7x lower typical power consumption: 30 Watt vs 500 Watt

Launch date	17 Dec 2021 vs 31 August 2012
Texture fill rate	79.68 GTexel/s vs 2x 118.4 GTexel / s billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	30 Watt vs 500 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Around 26% higher core clock speed: 925 MHz vs 735 MHz
2x more pipelines: 2x 2048 vs 2048
Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 2x 3 GB vs 4 GB
3.1x more memory clock speed: 5500 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective

Core clock speed	925 MHz vs 735 MHz
Pipelines	2x 2048 vs 2048
Maximum memory size	2x 3 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed	5500 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile	AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2
PassMark - G2D Mark	477
PassMark - G3D Mark	7754
Geekbench - OpenCL	43515
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	253
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		17.707

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile	AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	GCN 1.0
Code name	GA107	New Zealand
Launch date	17 Dec 2021	31 August 2012
Place in performance rating	343	338
Launch price (MSRP)		$899
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1245 MHz
Core clock speed	735 MHz	925 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	159.4 GFLOPS (1:32)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	10.20 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	5.100 TFLOPS
Pipelines	2048	2x 2048
Pixel fill rate	39.84 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	79.68 GTexel/s	2x 118.4 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	30 Watt	500 Watt
Floating-point performance		2x 3,789 gflops
Transistor count		4,313 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.1, 2x DisplayPort 1.4a	1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Height	35 mm, 1.4 inches
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	229 mm, 9 inches	292 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	3x 8-pin
Width	113 mm, 4.4 inches
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.0 (11_1)
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	2x 3 GB
Memory bandwidth	112.0 GB/s	2x 264.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 bit	2x 384 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective	5500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5