ASUS HD 7970 vs MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z

Comparison ASUS HD 7970 with 3 GB GDDR5 and 2,048 cores vs MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z with 32 GB GDDR7 and 21,760 cores.

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Performance Rating

MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z outperforms ASUS HD 7970 by 1,330.0% in the overall GPU ARK performance rating

A100 A100
H200 H200
MI325X MI325X

ASUS HD 7970

3.3

ASUS HD 7970

3.3
RX 7900 XTX RX 7900 XTX
MI250 MI250
Instinct MI300X Instinct MI300X

MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z

47.2

MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z

47.2

Expert Comparison

ASUS HD 7970 от 2012 года с 2048 ядрами и 3 ГБ памяти несравнимо уступает современной MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z, которая имеет 21760 ядер, 32 ГБ памяти и значительно большую пропускную способность (1.79 ТБ/с против 264 ГБ/с). RTX 5090 также обладает гораздо более высокой производительностью в вычислениях с плавающей запятой (118.8 ТФЛПС против 3.789 ТФЛПС) и значительно большей TDP (1000 Вт против 250 Вт).

Contents:

Memory ML Performance Compute Power Architecture & Compatibility ML Software Support Clocks & Performance Power Consumption Rendering Additional

Memory

Memory Size

3 GB
🔥 +967% 32 ГБ

Memory Type

GDDR5 GDDR7

Memory Bandwidth

264.0 GB/s
🔥 1.79 TB/s

Memory Bus Width

384 бит 512 бит

ML Performance

FP16 (Half Precision)

No
🔥 118.8 TFLOPS

BF16 (Brain Float)

No No

TF32 (TensorFloat)

No No

Compute Power

FP32 (Single Precision)

3.789 TFLOPS
🔥 +3,035% 118.8 TFLOPS

FP64 (Double Precision)

0.9472 TFLOPS
🔥 +96% 1.856 TFLOPS

CUDA Cores

2,048
🔥 +962% 21,760

RT Cores

No
🔥 170

Architecture & Compatibility

GPU Architecture

GCN 1.0 Blackwell 2.0

SM (Streaming Multiprocessor)

No
🔥 170

PCIe Version

PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16

ML Software Support

CUDA Version

No 12.0

CUDA Toolkit (first supported)

v12

CUDA Toolkit status

Supported Supported

Clocks & Performance

Base Clock

No
🔥 2,017

Boost Clock

No
🔥 2,730

Memory Clock

1,375
🔥 +27% 1,750

Power Consumption

Recommended PSU

🔥 -57% 600 W
1400 W

Power Connector

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
🔥 +100% 2x 16-pin

TDP/TGP

🔥 -75% 250 W
1000 W

Rendering

Texture Units (TMU)

128
🔥 +431% 680

ROP

No
🔥 170

L2 Cache

768 KB
🔥 96 MB

Additional

Slots

Dual-slot Triple-slot

Release Date

Jan. 9, 2012 Jan. 6, 2026

Display Outputs

1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b

1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
1x USB Type-C

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