Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile - video card comparison
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Tahiti
GN20-S7
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
June 2012
December 2021
Bus support
PCIe 2.1 x16
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
-
Boost clock speed
1050 MHz
1477 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,301 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
-
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
30-45 Watt
Texture fill rate
134.4
189.1
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1500 MHz
14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
288 GB/s
112.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
G-SYNC support
-
+
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.6
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.6
Vulkan
-
1.2
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
VR Ready
-
+
ZeroCore
-
-