NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

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General info

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

Place in performance rankingnot rated151
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2012−2020)Turing (2018−2021)
GPU code nameTahitiN19E-Q3 MAX-Q
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Designreferenceno data
Release date22 June 2012 (11 years old)27 May 2019 (4 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)$499 no data
Current price$359 (0.7x MSRP)no data

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores20482560
Core clock speedno data780 - 960 MHz
Boost clock speed1050 MHz1380 - 1485 MHz
Number of transistors4,313 million13,600 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)250 Watt80 - 90 Watt
Texture fill rate134.4220.8
Floating-point performance4,301 gflopsno data

Size and compatibility

Information on Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and Quadro RTX 4000 Max-Q compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop sizeno datalarge
Bus supportPCIe 2.1 x16no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length274 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pinNone

Memory

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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount3 GB8 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth288 GB/s416.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

Video outputs and ports

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 HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPortNo outputs
Eyefinity1no data
HDMI+no data
DisplayPort support-no data
G-SYNC supportno data+

Technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

AppAcceleration-no data
CrossFire1no data
Enduro-no data
FreeSync1no data
HD3D-no data
PowerTune-no data
TrueAudio-no data
ZeroCore-no data
VR Readyno data+

API support

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

DirectXDirectX® 1112 Ultimate (12_1)
Shader Model5.16.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkanno data1.2.131
Mantle-no data
CUDAno data7.5

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 22 June 2012 27 May 2019
Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 250 Watt 80 Watt

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and Quadro RTX 4000 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition is a desktop card while Quadro RTX 4000 Max-Q is a mobile workstation one.


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