NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 4 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm
4.3x lower typical power consumption: 115 Watt vs 500 Watt
2.5x more memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 5500 MHz
Around 29% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 22.794 vs 17.707

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	29 January 2019 vs 31 August 2012
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	115 Watt vs 500 Watt
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz vs 5500 MHz
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	22.794 vs 17.707

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Around 5% higher core clock speed: 925 MHz vs 885 MHz
Around 78% higher pipelines: 2x 2048 vs 2304

Core clock speed	925 MHz vs 885 MHz
Pipelines	2x 2048 vs 2304

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)

GPU 1

GPU 2

22.794

17.707

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q	AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2
PassMark - G3D Mark	11748
PassMark - G2D Mark	483
Geekbench - OpenCL	78123
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	168.08
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1935.102
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	22.794	17.707
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	111.023
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	1001.496
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	17328
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	8912
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	8055
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	17328
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	8912
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	8055
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	6841

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q	AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	GCN 1.0
Code name	TU106	New Zealand
Launch date	29 January 2019	31 August 2012
Place in performance rating	178	321
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$899
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1185 MHz
Core clock speed	885 MHz	925 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	2304	2x 2048
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	115 Watt	500 Watt
Transistor count	10,800 million	4,313 million
Floating-point performance		2x 3,789 gflops
Texture fill rate		2x 118.4 GTexel / s billion / sec
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	3x 8-pin
Length		292 mm
API support
DirectX	12.0	12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Memory
Memory bus width	256 Bit	2x 384 Bit
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz	5500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount		2x 3 GB
Memory bandwidth		2x 264.0 GB / s