NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER vs AMD Radeon RX 590

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER AMD Radeon RX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 60% (2475MHz vs 1545MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

4864 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Lower TDP (175W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER +398%

35.48 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590

7.119 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER +341%

21021

Radeon RX 590

4760

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER +291%

94

Radeon RX 590

24

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER +300%

184

Radeon RX 590

46

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER +288%

276

Radeon RX 590

71

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER +187%

112

Radeon RX 590

39

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER +154%

188

Radeon RX 590

74

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER +98%

200

Radeon RX 590

101

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER +276%

158

Radeon RX 590

42

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER +135%

158

Radeon RX 590

67

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER +72%

190

Radeon RX 590

110

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER

VS

Radeon RX 590

Graphics Card

Jan 2024

Release Date

Nov 2018

GeForce 40

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1980 MHz

Base Clock

1469 MHz

2475 MHz

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

504.2GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

56

SM Count

-

Compute Units

36

7168

Shading Units

2304

224

TMUs

144

80

ROPs

32

224

Tensor Cores

-

56

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

198.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.44 GPixel/s

554.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.5 GTexel/s

35.48 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

7.119 TFLOPS

35.48 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.119 TFLOPS

554.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

445.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

Polaris 30

AD104-350-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

5 nm

Process Size

12 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

220W

TDP

175W

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 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

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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