NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 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).

NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 8 month(s) later
82.6x more texture fill rate: 175.0 GTexel/s vs 2x 118.4 GTexel / s billion / sec
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm
8.3x lower typical power consumption: 60 Watt vs 500 Watt

Launch date	27 May 2019 vs 31 August 2012
Texture fill rate	175.0 GTexel/s vs 2x 118.4 GTexel / s billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	60 Watt vs 500 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Around 54% higher core clock speed: 925 MHz vs 600 MHz
Around 78% higher pipelines: 2x 2048 vs 2304
Around 10% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 17.707 vs 16.026

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	925 MHz vs 600 MHz
Pipelines	2x 2048 vs 2304
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	17.707 vs 16.026

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

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

GPU 1

GPU 2

16.026

17.707

Name	NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q	AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2
PassMark - G3D Mark	8202
PassMark - G2D Mark	332
Geekbench - OpenCL	68305
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	220.867
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	2046.214
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	16.026	17.707
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	94.532
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	645.647
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	10140
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3706
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3351
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	10140
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3706
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3351

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q	AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	GCN 1.0
Code name	TU106	New Zealand
Launch date	27 May 2019	31 August 2012
Place in performance rating	329	330
Type	Mobile workstation	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$899
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1215 MHz
Core clock speed	600 MHz	925 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	175.0 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	11.20 TFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	5.599 TFLOPS
Pipelines	2304	2x 2048
Pixel fill rate	77.76 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	175.0 GTexel/s	2x 118.4 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	60 Watt	500 Watt
Transistor count	10800 million	4,313 million
Floating-point performance		2x 3,789 gflops
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
Width	IGP
Length		292 mm
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (11_1)
OpenCL	1.2
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.4
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	2x 3 GB
Memory bandwidth	448 GB/s	2x 264.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 bit	2x 384 Bit
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Memory clock speed		5500 MHz