ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 AD103

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ATI Radeon HD 5970 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 AD103

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 AD103 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 AD103 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock2475MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

4288 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (200W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 AD103 +1156%

29.15 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

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GeForce RTX 4070 AD103

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Mar 2024

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1920 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2475 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1313 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

504.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

46

20

Compute Units

-

1600

Shading Units

5888

80

TMUs

184

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

184

-

RT Cores

46

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

36 MB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

158.4 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

455.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

29.15 TFLOPS

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.15 TFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

455.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

AD103

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

AD103-175-K1-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

5 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

45.9 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

379 mm²

Board Design

294W

TDP

200W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.9

5.0

Shader Model

6.7

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