NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super 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, Technologies. 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 10 month(s) later
  • Around 74% higher core clock speed: 1605 MHz vs 925 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm
  • 2.3x lower typical power consumption: 215 Watt vs 500 Watt
  • Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2x 3 GB
  • 2.5x more memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 5500 MHz
  • Around 65% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 29.145 vs 17.707
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 2 July 2019 vs 31 August 2012
Core clock speed 1605 MHz vs 925 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 215 Watt vs 500 Watt
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 2x 3 GB
Memory clock speed 14000 MHz vs 5500 MHz
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 29.145 vs 17.707

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

  • Around 60% higher pipelines: 2x 2048 vs 2560
Pipelines 2x 2048 vs 2560

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
29.145
17.707
Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2
PassMark - G3D Mark 18245
PassMark - G2D Mark 886
Geekbench - OpenCL 100123
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 293.508
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 4045.784
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 29.145 17.707
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 158.103
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1438.826
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 25232
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3359
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 25232
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3359
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 7

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Essentials

Architecture Turing GCN 1.0
Code name TU104 New Zealand
Launch date 2 July 2019 31 August 2012
Launch price (MSRP) $499 $899
Place in performance rating 134 319
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1770 MHz
Core clock speed 1605 MHz 925 MHz
CUDA cores 2560
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm 28 nm
Maximum GPU temperature 88 C
Pipelines 2560 2x 2048
Render output units 64
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 215 Watt 500 Watt
Transistor count 13.6 B 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 Port 1.4
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
G-SYNC support
HDCP
HDMI
Multi monitor support
Number of simultaneous displays 4
Display Connectors 1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Height 4.556” (115.7mm)
Length 10.5” (266.74mm) 292 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 650 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 6 pin + 8 pin 3x 8-pin
Width 2-Slot
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16

API support

DirectX 12.1 12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.5 4.5
Shader Model 6.4
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 2x 3 GB
Memory bandwidth 448 GB/s 2x 264.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 bit 2x 384 Bit
Memory clock speed 14000 MHz 5500 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5

Technologies

Ansel
HDMI 2.0b
SLI
VR Ready