NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 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.

NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 9% higher core clock speed: 1005 MHz vs 925 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm
2x lower typical power consumption: 250 Watt vs 500 Watt
2.5x more memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 5500 MHz
2.5x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 43.914 vs 17.707

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	13 August 2018 vs 31 August 2012
Core clock speed	1005 MHz vs 925 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt vs 500 Watt
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz vs 5500 MHz
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	43.914 vs 17.707

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

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

GPU 1

GPU 2

43.914

17.707

Name	NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000	AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2
PassMark - G3D Mark	19370
PassMark - G2D Mark	869
Geekbench - OpenCL	137262
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	401.574
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	6432.348
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	43.914	17.707
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	215.219
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	2101.927
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	21578
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3652
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3290
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	21578
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3652
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3290
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000	AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	GCN 1.0
Code name	TU102	New Zealand
Launch date	13 August 2018	31 August 2012
Launch price (MSRP)	$9,999	$899
Place in performance rating	103	321
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1200 MHz
Core clock speed	1005 MHz	925 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt	500 Watt
Transistor count	18,600 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	2x 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