NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 vs AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 9070 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 's Advantages
1792 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (200W vs 304W)
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT 's Advantages
Released 7 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 20% (2970MHz vs 2475MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (644.6GB/s vs 480.0GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
29.15 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 9070 XT
+66%
48.66 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2024
Release Date
Mar 2025
GeForce 40
Generation
Navi IV
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1920 MHz
Base Clock
1660 MHz
2475 MHz
Boost Clock
2970 MHz
2500 MHz
Memory Clock
2518 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
480.0GB/s
Bandwidth
644.6GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
64
46
SM Count
-
5888
Shading Units
4096
184
TMUs
256
64
ROPs
128
184
Tensor Cores
128
46
RT Cores
64
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB per Array
36 MB
L2 Cache
8 MB
-
L3 Cache
64 MB
Theoretical Performance
158.4 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
380.2 GPixel/s
455.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
760.3 GTexel/s
29.15 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
97.32 TFLOPS
29.15 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
48.66 TFLOPS
455.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1.521 TFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
304W
550 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1a
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
Navi 48
AD104-2XX-A1
GPU Variant
Navi 48 XT
(215-176600315)
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
RDNA 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
5 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
53.9 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
357 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.2
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
8.9
CUDA
-
6.8
Shader Model
6.8
