H100 SXM5 vs ATI Radeon 9700

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking1424not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.26no data
ArchitectureRage 8 (2002−2007)Hopper (2022−2023)
GPU code nameR300GH100
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date1 July 2002 (22 years ago)22 March 2022 (2 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA coresno data8448
Core clock speed275 MHz1065 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1780 MHz
Number of transistors110 million80,000 million
Manufacturing process technology150 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)37 Watt700 Watt
Texture fill rate2.200939.8
Floating-point processing powerno data30.07 TFLOPS
ROPs824
TMUs8528
Tensor Coresno data528

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfaceAGP 8xPCIe 5.0 x16
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsFloppy8-pin EPS

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDRHBM3
Maximum RAM amount128 MB80 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit5120 Bit
Memory clock speed270 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth17.28 GB/s1,920 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX9.0 (9_0)N/A
Shader Modelno dataN/A
OpenGL2.0N/A
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-9.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 July 2002 22 March 2022
Maximum RAM amount 128 MB 80 GB
Chip lithography 150 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 37 Watt 700 Watt

ATI 9700 has 1791.9% lower power consumption.

H100 SXM5, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 19 years, a 63900% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 3650% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 9700 and H100 SXM5. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon 9700 is a desktop card while H100 SXM5 is a workstation one.


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