GeForce RTX 3080 vs Radeon HD 7970
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce RTX 3080 |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Supports PhysX |
| Supports G-Sync |
| Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Supports DirectX Raytracing (DXR) |
| Supports Deep Learning Super-Sampling (DLSS) |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7970 |
| 70 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce RTX 3080 . |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports Mantle |
| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce RTX 3080
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce RTX 3080 | | Radeon HD 7970 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GA102 (GA102-200-K1-A1) | vs | Tahiti (Tahiti XT) |
| Fab Process | 8 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 628 mm² | vs | 352 mm² |
| Transistors | 28,000 million | vs | 4,313 million |
| Shaders | 8704 | vs | 2048 |
| Compute Units | 68 | vs | 32 |
| Core clock | 1440 MHz | vs | 925 MHz |
| ROPs | 96 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 272 | vs | 128 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce RTX 3080 | | Radeon HD 7970 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR6X | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 320 bit | vs | 384 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1188 MHz
19 Gbps effective | vs | 1375 MHz
5500 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 10240 Mb | vs | 3072 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce RTX 3080 | | Radeon HD 7970 | |
|---|
| TDP | 320 watts | vs | 250 watts |
| Release Date | 1 Sep 2020 | vs | 22 Dec 2011 |
GeForce RTX 3080
164.20 GP/s
Radeon HD 7970
29.60 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce RTX 3080
465.10 GT/s
Radeon HD 7970
118.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce RTX 3080
760.30 GB/s
Radeon HD 7970
264.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce RTX 3080
29770.00 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 7970
3789.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better