NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 11 month(s) later
  • Around 75% higher core clock speed: 1620 MHz vs 925 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm
  • 2.5x lower typical power consumption: 200 Watt vs 500 Watt
  • 2.5x more memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 5500 MHz
  • Around 44% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 25.476 vs 17.707
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 13 August 2018 vs 31 August 2012
Core clock speed 1620 MHz vs 925 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 200 Watt vs 500 Watt
Memory clock speed 14000 MHz vs 5500 MHz
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 25.476 vs 17.707

Compare benchmarks

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

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
25.476
17.707
Name NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2
PassMark - G3D Mark 16036
PassMark - G2D Mark 752
Geekbench - OpenCL 105171
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 226.447
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 4161.764
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 25.476 17.707
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 118.544
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1106.12
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 19811
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3719
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 19811
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3719
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3358
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 10685

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Essentials

Architecture Turing GCN 1.0
Code name TU104 New Zealand
Launch date 13 August 2018 31 August 2012
Launch price (MSRP) $2,299 $899
Place in performance rating 153 318
Type Workstation Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1815 MHz
Core clock speed 1620 MHz 925 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 200 Watt 500 Watt
Transistor count 13,600 million 4,313 million
Floating-point performance 2x 3,789 gflops
Pipelines 2x 2048
Texture fill rate 2x 118.4 GTexel / s billion / sec

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 3x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C 1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 267 mm 292 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin 3x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.5

Memory

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