NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 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 4070 GDDR6 's Advantages
Released 11 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock2475MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (480.0GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)
3840 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (200W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
+669%
29.15 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 8970 OEM
3.789 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2024
Release Date
Jan 2013
GeForce 40
Generation
Sea Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1920 MHz
Base Clock
-
2475 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2500 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
384bit
480.0GB/s
Bandwidth
264.0GB/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
29.60 GPixel/s
455.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
29.15 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
29.15 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
455.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
947.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
200W
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 16-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
Tahiti
AD104-2XX-A1
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT
(215-0821060)
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
