NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 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, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s).

NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 Mobile

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 12% higher core clock speed: 1035 MHz vs 925 MHz
140x more texture fill rate: 296.6 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
4.5x lower typical power consumption: 110 Watt vs 500 Watt
2.7x more maximum memory size: 16 GB vs 2x 3 GB

Launch date	27 May 2019 vs 31 August 2012
Core clock speed	1035 MHz vs 925 MHz
Texture fill rate	296.6 GTexel/s vs 2x 118.4 GTexel / s billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	110 Watt vs 500 Watt
Maximum memory size	16 GB vs 2x 3 GB

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Around 33% higher pipelines: 2x 2048 vs 3072

Pipelines	2x 2048 vs 3072

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 Mobile
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Name	NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 Mobile	AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2
PassMark - G2D Mark	705
PassMark - G3D Mark	14832
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	19565
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	19565
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3346
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3346
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3714
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3714
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	0
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		17.707

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 Mobile	AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	GCN 1.0
Code name	TU104	New Zealand
Launch date	27 May 2019	31 August 2012
Place in performance rating	175	319
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$899
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1545 MHz
Core clock speed	1035 MHz	925 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	296.6 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	18.98 TFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	9.492 TFLOPS
Pipelines	3072	2x 2048
Pixel fill rate	98.88 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	296.6 GTexel/s	2x 118.4 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	110 Watt	500 Watt
Transistor count	13600 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	3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	3x 8-pin
Width	IGP
Length		292 mm
API support
DirectX	12.0	12.0 (11_1)
OpenCL	1.2
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.4
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	16 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