NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 vs AMD Radeon RX 580G
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580G 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 5 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 86% (2475MHz vs 1330MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (480.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)
3584 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon RX 580G 's Advantages
Lower TDP (185W vs 200W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
+375%
29.15 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 580G
6.129 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2024
Release Date
Oct 2018
GeForce 40
Generation
Polaris
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1920 MHz
Base Clock
1257 MHz
2475 MHz
Boost Clock
1330 MHz
2500 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
480.0GB/s
Bandwidth
256.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
36
46
SM Count
-
5888
Shading Units
2304
184
TMUs
144
64
ROPs
32
184
Tensor Cores
-
46
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
36 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
158.4 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
42.56 GPixel/s
455.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
191.5 GTexel/s
29.15 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
6.129 TFLOPS
29.15 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.129 TFLOPS
455.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
383.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
185W
550 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
Polaris 20
AD104-2XX-A1
GPU Variant
Polaris 20 XTX
(215-0910038)
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
5 nm
Process Size
14 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
232 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
8.9
CUDA
-
6.8
Shader Model
6.4
