NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 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 7 years late
Boost Clock has increased by 68% (2475MHz vs 1471MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (480.0GB/s vs 409.6GB/s)
2304 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (200W vs 210W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
+176%
29.15 TFLOPS
Radeon RX Vega 56
10.54 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2024
Release Date
Aug 2017
GeForce 40
Generation
Vega
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1920 MHz
Base Clock
1156 MHz
2475 MHz
Boost Clock
1471 MHz
2500 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
HBM2
192bit
Memory Bus
2048bit
480.0GB/s
Bandwidth
409.6GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
56
46
SM Count
-
5888
Shading Units
3584
184
TMUs
224
64
ROPs
64
184
Tensor Cores
-
46
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
36 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
158.4 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
94.14 GPixel/s
455.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
329.5 GTexel/s
29.15 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
21.09 TFLOPS
29.15 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
10.54 TFLOPS
455.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
659.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
210W
550 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
Vega 10
AD104-2XX-A1
GPU Variant
Vega 10 XL
(215-0894216)
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
GCN 5.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
5 nm
Process Size
14 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
12.5 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
495 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
8.9
CUDA
-
6.8
Shader Model
6.4
