NVIDIA TITAN RTX vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA TITAN RTX 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, 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA TITAN RTX

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • Around 46% higher core clock speed: 1350 MHz vs 925 MHz
  • Around 13% higher pipelines: 4608 vs 2x 2048
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm
  • Around 79% lower typical power consumption: 280 Watt vs 500 Watt
  • 2.5x more memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 5500 MHz
Launch date 18 December 2018 vs 31 August 2012
Core clock speed 1350 MHz vs 925 MHz
Pipelines 4608 vs 2x 2048
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 280 Watt vs 500 Watt
Memory clock speed 14000 MHz vs 5500 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA TITAN RTX
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Name NVIDIA TITAN RTX AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2
PassMark - G3D Mark 19986
PassMark - G2D Mark 827
Geekbench - OpenCL 138072
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 25820
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3707
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3353
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 25820
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3707
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3353
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 15160
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 17.707

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA TITAN RTX AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Essentials

Architecture Turing GCN 1.0
Code name TU102 New Zealand
Launch date 18 December 2018 31 August 2012
Launch price (MSRP) $2,499 $899
Place in performance rating 91 319
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1770 MHz
Core clock speed 1350 MHz 925 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 4608 2x 2048
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 280 Watt 500 Watt
Transistor count 18,600 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 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C 1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
DisplayPort count 3
DisplayPort support
HDMI

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 12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.5

Memory

Memory bus width 384 Bit 2x 384 Bit
Memory clock speed 14000 MHz 5500 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 2x 3 GB
Memory bandwidth 2x 264.0 GB / s