NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 vs ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3850 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 's Advantages

Released 15 years late

Boost Clock2475MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 52.99GB/s)

5568 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (140W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4070 +6710%

29.15 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3850 X2

0.428 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070

VS

Radeon HD 3850 X2

Graphics Card

Apr 2023

Release Date

Apr 2008

GeForce 40

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 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

256bit

504.2GB/s

Bandwidth

52.99GB/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

10.70 GPixel/s

455.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.70 GTexel/s

29.15 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

29.15 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

428.2 GFLOPS

455.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.63 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

140W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

RV670

AD104-250-A1

GPU Variant

RV670 PRO (215-0708003)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

55 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

295 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

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

4.1

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