NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 XTX

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XTX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 XTX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 's Advantages

Boost Clock2475MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 106.0GB/s)

5568 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (200W vs 240W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4070 +6023%

29.15 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 XTX

0.476 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070

VS

Radeon HD 2900 XTX

Graphics Card

Apr 2023

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 40

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1920 MHz

Base Clock

-

2475 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

828 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

512bit

504.2GB/s

Bandwidth

106.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

46

SM Count

-

5888

Shading Units

320

184

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

16

184

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

36 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

158.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.89 GPixel/s

455.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.89 GTexel/s

29.15 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

29.15 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

475.5 GFLOPS

455.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

200W

TDP

240W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

R600

AD104-250-A1

GPU Variant

R600 XTX A11 (215RGMDKA11FG)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

80 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

295 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.9

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

4.0

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