GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Mobile vs Radeon HD 7970

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking380not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation2.45no data
Power efficiency3.73no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Blackwell 2.0 (2025)
GPU code nameTahitiGB205
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Designreferenceno data
Release date22 December 2011 (13 years ago)2025
Launch price (MSRP)$549 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores20486400
Core clock speedno data2235 MHz
Boost clock speed925 MHz2520 MHz
Number of transistors4,313 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm0 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Watt140 Watt
Texture fill rate118.4504.0
Floating-point processing power3.789 TFLOPS32.26 TFLOPS
ROPs3264
TMUs128200
Tensor Coresno data200
Ray Tracing Coresno data50

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).

Bus supportPCIe 2.1 x16no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 5.0 x16
Length274 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pinno data

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 typeGDDR5GDDR7
Maximum RAM amount6 GB12 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1375 MHz2500 MHz
Memory bandwidth264 GB/s760.8 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Eyefinity+-
HDMI++

Supported technologies

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

CrossFire+-
FreeSync+-

API compatibility

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

DirectXDirectX® 1112 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-10.1

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 12 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 300 Watt 140 Watt

RTX 5070 Ti Mobile has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 114.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7970 and GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 7970 is a desktop card while GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Mobile is a notebook one.


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