NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 's Advantages
Released 12 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 136% (2475MHz vs 1050MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (480.0GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)
3840 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (200W vs 300W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
+577%
29.15 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
4.301 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2024
Release Date
Jun 2012
GeForce 40
Generation
Southern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1920 MHz
Base Clock
1000 MHz
2475 MHz
Boost Clock
1050 MHz
2500 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
384bit
480.0GB/s
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
32
46
SM Count
-
5888
Shading Units
2048
184
TMUs
128
64
ROPs
32
184
Tensor Cores
-
46
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
36 MB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
158.4 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
33.60 GPixel/s
455.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
134.4 GTexel/s
29.15 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
29.15 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.301 TFLOPS
455.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1075 GFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
300W
550 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
Tahiti
AD104-2XX-A1
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT2
(215-0821065)
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
28 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
294 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
8.9
CUDA
-
6.8
Shader Model
5.1
