NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 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: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s).

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 49% higher core clock speed: 1380 MHz vs 925 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm
3.3x lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 500 Watt
2.2x more memory clock speed: 12000 MHz vs 5500 MHz

Launch date	29 January 2019 vs 31 August 2012
Core clock speed	1380 MHz vs 925 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt vs 500 Watt
Memory clock speed	12000 MHz vs 5500 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Around 39% higher pipelines: 2x 2048 vs 2944

Pipelines	2x 2048 vs 2944

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile	AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	10098
PassMark - G2D Mark	812
PassMark - G3D Mark	15107
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	22622
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	22622
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	6319
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	6319
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	5714
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	5714
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		17.707

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile	AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	GCN 1.0
Code name	TU104	New Zealand
Launch date	29 January 2019	31 August 2012
Place in performance rating	106	321
Price now	$699.99
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	37.18
Launch price (MSRP)		$899
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1590 MHz
Core clock speed	1380 MHz	925 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	2944	2x 2048
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt	500 Watt
Transistor count	13,600 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
Length		292 mm
Supplementary power connectors		3x 8-pin
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	12000 MHz	5500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount		2x 3 GB
Memory bandwidth		2x 264.0 GB / s