NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 TiM vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 TiM

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 TiM and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 TiM 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1410MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

3840 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (220W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 TiM +338%

16.6 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 TiM

VS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

Graphics Card

Nov 2022

Release Date

Jan 2013

GeForce 30

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

915 MHz

Base Clock

-

1410 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

46

SM Count

-

5888

Shading Units

2048

184

TMUs

128

96

ROPs

32

184

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

135.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

259.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

16.60 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

16.60 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

259.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

220W

TDP

250W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Tahiti

-

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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