MSI HD 7970 Lightning vs NVIDIA RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell SFF

Comparison of MSI HD 7970 Lightning with 3 GB GDDR5 and 2,048 cores vs NVIDIA RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell SFF with 24 GB GDDR7 and 8,960 cores.

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Performance Rating

NVIDIA RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell SFF outperforms MSI HD 7970 Lightning by 270.67% in the overall GPU ARK performance rating

A100 A100
H200 H200
MI325X MI325X

MSI HD 7970 Lightning

3.6

MSI HD 7970 Lightning

3.6
RX 7900 XTX RX 7900 XTX
MI250 MI250
Instinct MI300X Instinct MI300X

NVIDIA RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell SFF

13.3

NVIDIA RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell SFF

13.3

Contents:

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

Memory

Memory Size

3 GB
🔥 +700% 24 ГБ

Memory Type

GDDR5 GDDR7

Memory Bandwidth

268.8 GB/s 432.0 GB/s

Memory Bus Width

384 бит 192 бит

ML Performance

FP16 (Half Precision)

No
🔥 25.66 TFLOPS

BF16 (Brain Float)

No No

TF32 (TensorFloat)

No No

Compute Power

FP32 (Single Precision)

4.383 TFLOPS
🔥 +485% 25.66 TFLOPS

FP64 (Double Precision)

1.0957 TFLOPS
🔥 0.401 TFLOPS

CUDA Cores

2,048
🔥 +338% 8,960

RT Cores

No
🔥 70

Architecture & Compatibility

GPU Architecture

GCN 1.0 Blackwell 2.0

SM (Streaming Multiprocessor)

No
🔥 70

PCIe Version

PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x8

ML Software Support

CUDA Version

No 12.0

Clocks & Performance

Base Clock

No
🔥 577

Boost Clock

No
🔥 1,432

Memory Clock

1,400
🔥 1,125

Power Consumption

Recommended PSU

600 W
🔥 -58% 250 W

Power Connector

2x 8-pin None

TDP/TGP

250 W
🔥 -72% 70 W

Rendering

Texture Units (TMU)

128
🔥 +119% 280

ROP

No
🔥 70

L2 Cache

768 KB
🔥 48 MB

Additional

Slots

Dual-slot Dual-slot

Release Date

March 13, 2012 Aug. 11, 2025

Display Outputs

1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

2x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
4x mini-DisplayPort 2.1b

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