NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 7870M

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile

AMD Radeon HD 7870M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1695MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

3968 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7870M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (45W vs 115W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile +1425%

15.62 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870M

1.024 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile

VS

Radeon HD 7870M

Graphics Card

Jan 2023

Release Date

Apr 2012

GeForce 40 Mobile

Generation

London

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1395 MHz

Base Clock

-

1695 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

36

SM Count

-

4608

Shading Units

640

144

TMUs

40

48

ROPs

16

144

Tensor Cores

-

36

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

81.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

244.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.00 GTexel/s

15.62 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

15.62 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1024 GFLOPS

244.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

64.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

115W

TDP

45W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

AD106

GPU Name

Heathrow

GN21-X6

GPU Variant

Heathrow XT (216-0835033)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

1.5 billion

190 mm²

Die Size

123 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

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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